“We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.” Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)
Then I did a random Google image search and found these:
? <http://www.ae.gatech.edu/research/controls/pictures/f020801_gtar/More%20of%20Nothing.JPG>
? <http://www.bangmoney.org/travel/ga_to_ca_move/grfx/folder1/nothing.jpg>
All of which kind of suggests that there is quite a bit to nothing and it also seems that’s been know for some time. So I think DA’s explanation – 42 – is more comprehendible albeit that all this is quite interesting.
Ray _from way out on the edge
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (when the server’s up)
BTW ... I did get the JPEG!
On 2/5/04 5:22 PM, "michael leigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--Ooops! It seems one cannot send jpegs or even html
via the Fluxlist so you did not get to see the diagram
of "nothing" which seems very fitting under the
circumstances - sending "nothing" and finding out
"nothing" never arrived!
But if you are keen to see a diagram of "nothing" I
suggest you go to DOGPILE and type in "nothing" and
several thousand images of "nothing" pop up - one of
which is the diagram of "nothing" in a discourse about
the beginning of the universe. All the best, Michael
- Ray Noman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think
this is all quite ZENzing if not FLUXUS and
> I1m contemplating using
> that scientific drawing/diagram for a logo for
> something Zz.
>
> BUT, I also think that in the end this discourse
> about nothingness, or
> somethingness, or whatever, well maybe Douglas Adams
> probably had an (the?)
> answer which I struggle to recall ..... Was it ‘421
> or is it now another
> number like ‘01 or ‘11 or a whole string of 0s & 1s?
> Somethingness is just
> so hard to avoid, and as for nothingness, well it is
> equally difficult to
> embrace.
>
> Then again, when I didn1t go to the meeting it was
> quite OK doing nothing
> rather than something instead. Quite silly really!
>
>
> Ray _from way out on the edge
> eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (when the server1s up)
>
>
>
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