
Originally Posted by
Fredrick
Again, good thinking. India is the place where the modern zero was born (though older less developed versions of zero were in use as placeholders in Middle Eastern and Mayan cultures for a few centuries already).
To have nature that is never neutral as the sole focus of the whole is what is not correct in your view, Dipayan. There is more to everything than just nature.
Let's agree that there is no such thing as a framework in which zero takes up the entire framework. We can conjure it, but it would not be anything.
Then there are the two frameworks that are different: there is no such thing as a scientific framework in which 1 takes up the entire framework; in religion this is possible.
Make sure you have no single entity in focus as the entire picture, because you have then entered a religious realm.
In nature, we have 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 ,7 8, 9 and etcetera. As you can see, the zero is a part of nature, for instance, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun moves neither in more positive nor in more negative territory. It may just be a fraction of time, but the directional movement of the sun from our perspective in this nature is zero. And wonderfully, in reality there is no difference between where the sun was standing the day before or the day after; it is still in its same location at the center of the solar system. And earth did not wiggle either, this is all just happening because the spin is occurring at a 23 degree angle. So, the zero is really a zero in that it not exists, but we nevertheless experience it, and nature behaves according to this rhythm that automatically includes zero.
Yes, zero does not exist as source, but at the same time I must inform you that it does exist in the results. It is true that one can have zero coins in a wallet (but one has to start with using money first for this to become important) ; it is true that a tree can have zero seeds this year (but one has to start with a seed that grew into a tree first), it is true that you may understand nothing (zero) of what I write (but we must have started with a conversation about something first).
Zero is a position that is empty. It cannot exist all by itself in a framework of nothing; it is part of what came to exist.
Let's take the simple use of numbers as an example: 100 is that specific number with three positions where exactly one hundred things exist. If there were more, the zero(es) behind the 1 would have been other number(s).
I can write 10, but if I want to stick to three numbers, I can write 010. In this case, the zero in front and the zero in back are both placeholders of no additional value. But the zero in front adds fully nothing and can be left out (as in: 10), while the zero behind cannot be left out for it would change the number (as 10 into 1). The first zero is the same as an absolute nothing, and we can decide to put it there or not (or have more zeroes in front as in 000000010), the second zero is an actual placeholder of nothing additional, and cannot be removed without changing the meaning of the 1.
And my mathematical evidence (that some don't like but that has not been disproven or undermined in any scientific way) shows that once something is here, nothing is here, too.