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Monday 9 January 2012

Power of Zero


                                                     

             ‘Zero’ sounds nothing only emptiness but still its value is not at all uncertain.  Except intellectuals like Newton, Ramanujaan, and writers like Shobha de, Arundhati Roy and me who so ever had thought about it?  A four letters word zero but four though so heavy weighted is stampede with power of ‘0’ so four letters stand out of place. Let’s define ‘Zero’. It fulfills a central role in mathematics as the additive identity of the integers, real numbers, and many other algebraic structures. As a digit, 0 is used as a placeholder in place value systems. In the English language, 0 may be called zero, nougat or (US) naught (no), nil, or "o". Informal or slang terms for zero include zilch and zip.  A circle of zero says nothing nullifying everything but its circumference is heavily formulated with the word ‘2πr’god knows why? Maybe, its heavy formula is heavily guarded with the circle drawn with pencil symbolizes to the ‘Laxman Rekha’ drawn by our brother Laxman portraying loyalty towards his sister in law and his brother Ram. The line of zero cannot be under estimated. Zero alone looks like a pauper standing alone near the temple and begging but imagine if somebody pours 5 to it then the power of zero rises to 50 that is its value has increased two folds.
              Records show that the ancient Greeks seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number. They asked themselves, "How can nothing be something?” leading to philosophical and, by the medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of zero and the vacuum to reduce to zero in physics, the zero-point energy is the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical physical system may possess and is the energy of the ground state of the system.     
              The concept of "nothing" is a symbolic placeholder that really means "the connection between some elements that we cannot see at the moment." We have the word "nothing" but it doesn't correspond to anything that we actually experience. The absence of something is still a thing, i.e., it is air. Or it is the space that joins/divides/differentiates things. But there was an entire thread dedicated to the question of "Nothing," so I don't think we should go into that too much …but still zero has the power to say nothing into something. This illogical zero means nothing has evidently great power to say everything. When we enter into the room we do not find anything we say oh! There is nothing in the room. At this point we are incorrect because there is a logical vacuum filling the space which occupies whole of the space of the room.






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