Sir, yes sir! But I'm hardly an expert, college dropout and all that. (Community college even. ;) ) So, where do I get off claiming to be a mathematician? Why, the scientific method, of course. The zero is not as "concrete" concept as his material other half, the one; but concepts of a symbolic language is all they are. A guy on Youtube made me a mathematician. He was arguing for the establishment of a new symbology to replace the zero; a "blank" that was more computer friendly, as it were. To me, that's not the point. I mean, that old, round fellow is all but a number to most but the nit-pickers like me. I see it as a type of warning. Here there be dragons. Zero is the face of infinity that has become contemptible by its familiarity, yet the wise men of the East have long knew something all our vaunted Western technology is just discovering. The legendary kingdom of heaven is not beyond the sum total of everything, the nearer doorway is through the absence of anything.

What is empty space? Far more than nothing, it would seem. I was watching Stephen Wolfram discuss his book, <i>A New Kind of Science</i>, the other day. Since I missed genius by a couple of points, I couldn't quite follow how computational irreducibility is other than deterministic chaos in a new suit; but I'm sure the stupid brain will do further research one day. But it was drifting, thinking about how I don't know jack about QM but quantum decoherence sounds like a winner; and he's showing patterns of cellular automatia, rule 110, I think it was. A nearly "random mess" in the first line, but as successive iterations display... particles, from the stuff of nothingness. He even mentioned how it resembled particle interaction towards the end. Like sixteen lines of code that display the sum total of the Julia sets, twenty years and three hundred pages of Gaston Julia's life. Elegant, as we say in the field.

But I love this place. I still have to go back and research half of this very post to decode what is actually being said, but "yes, no, and maybe" sure seem to be covered by the three infinities; positive, negative, and zero. ;)