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Originally Posted by fair_gwen Positive or negative infinity? Well, wouldn't it be both, or do you randomly throw in an absolute value of infinity. But the opposite is in two directions. Arghhhh...I feel as if I am wandering in circles. If zero is put on a number line, the it doesn't really have an opposite, because it is the "mirror" for all other numbers. Lodestar, just set me straight, your questions make my head hurt.
Side thought: Can positive infinity ever circle around to negative infinity?
Side thought: Are TOE and Unified Law the same thing? |
Sorry to make your head hurt Fair Gwen but you did an excellent job. You should be proud of yourself! You just discovered the TOE on your very own. See, I knew it would work. People are so smart!
The key was when you said: "Can positive infinity ever circle around to negative infinity, and wouldn't the opposite of zero be both positive and negative?" The single answer to these related questions is, Yes!
You see Fair Gwen, there is a number, called 1/0, which is a very very important number that brings the understanding of everything full circle. That's because 1/0 is the opposite of 0. But the trouble is mathematicians have been afraid of this number, because they couldn't believe it was teling them the truth, that, everything is both positive and negative. Mathematicians were afraid of the fact that 1/0 is both positive and negative, so they labeled it "undefined." But in reality, 1/0 is the number that means EVERYTHING, just as 0 is the number that means NOTHING. And just as zero is the point where +1/infinity meets with -1/infinity, so too 1/0 is the point where +infinity meets with -infinity. When we accept this fact, we can finally turn the number line into a number circle. Check it out
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Now as you said, positive infinity and negative infinity are completely different directions, so how can they be at the same point? It would seem kind of ironic wouldn't it? Well, we have to look at reality from both sides of the looking glass to understand it this way. It's like something I like to call the irony of truth. For example, if we think of numbers as a measure of emotion, with 0 being indifference (i.e. no emotion at all), then we could think of -infinity as extreme love and +infinity as extreme hate. In this case 1/0 would be passion, which defines both love and hate. So you see, even though it is a contradiction that -infinity and +infinity come together to form the opposite of nothing, it really is not, for we already understand this sort of thing inherently in the English language where love and hate fall under the same word - passion - even though they are opposites in a different respect.
If I have intrigued you, which I hope I have, I will tell you more about the amazing number 1/0 and how it is the key to understanding everything. Also if you have any questions so far feel free to ask me. I have been thinking about everything lots.
ps. Science has practically destroyed the meaning of everything by saying it is undefined and making it out to be more complex than it really is. Defining 1/0 makes everything easy to understand without destroying the complex irony inherent in its meaning.
cheers