Nothing

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 17 Jan 2020 11:54 am

Roy Heap wrote:Bob Knight you have a lot to answer for.

On the contrary, Bob has

NOTHING

to answer for.

Dan Kelly · Post by **Dan Kelly** » 19 Jan 2020 10:37 am

NEW YORK â€” It was all much ado about nothing as physicists and thinkers came together to debate the concept of nothing Wednesday (March 20) here at the American Museum of Natural History.

Exerpt - a "deeper" nothing

But there is a deeper kind of nothing, argued theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University, which consists of no space at all, and no time, no particles, no fields, no laws of nature. "That to me is as close to nothing as you can get," Krauss said.

Holt disagreed.

"Is that really nothing?" he asked."There's no space and there's no time. But what about physical laws, what about mathematical entities? What about consciousness? All the things that are non-spatial and non-temporal."

Other speakers offered different ideas for nothing, such as a mathematical concept of nothing put forward by science journalist Charles Seife, author of "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" (Penguin Books, 2000). He proposed starting with a set of numbers that included only the number zero, and then removing zero, leaving what's called a null set. "It's almost a Platonic nothing," Seife said.

The theoretical physicist Eva Silverstein of Stanford University suggested a highly technical nothing based on quantum field theory that involved a quantum system lacking degrees of freedom (dimensions). "The ground state of a gapped quantum system is my best answer," she said.

AND SOME SAY MUSICIANS HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS... SHEESH!

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 22 Jan 2020 3:45 am

I went to the doctor.
He looked in my ear.
He saw straight through the other ear.
He exclaimed "Just as I thought.. NOTHING!"

Roy Carroll · Post by **Roy Carroll** » 22 Jan 2020 6:22 am

I woke up this morning with nothing on my mind. If I do nothing all day, I will have accomplished... you guessed it. NOTHING. I sat down to my guitar, and nothing came out. I forgot to turn the amp on! I guess the on/off switch is a nothing switch in the off position? Looking forward to doing nothing all day!

Steven Paris · Post by **Steven Paris** » 22 Jan 2020 6:42 am

"You get up every morning from your alarm clock's warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There's a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin'
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay

If you ever get annoyed, look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
And I'll be taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime, work out

It's as easy as fishin'; you could be a musician
If you could make sounds that are mellow
Get a second-hand guitar, chances are you'll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows"

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 1 May 2020 12:18 pm

This lockdown is causing many people to do nothing.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 1 May 2020 12:34 pm

I responded to this Postmaster email and it was Nothing.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 1 May 2020 12:35 pm

I keep meaning to do nothing, but I never seem to get round to it.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 3 May 2020 9:54 am

I kept checking my bank for the IRS stimulus... NOTHING!

admin · Post by **b0b** » 29 Aug 2020 10:44 pm

Nothing bubbles to the top.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 29 Aug 2020 11:27 pm

Cassondra Campbell · Post by **Cassondra Campbell** » 31 Aug 2020 8:19 am

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Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 31 Aug 2020 8:57 am

Nothing matters.
It really does.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 31 Aug 2020 9:03 am

I had forgotten about nothing.

Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 31 Aug 2020 11:42 pm

Charlie,
There's absolutely NOTHING to forget.
Anyway it must have been NOTHING.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 1 Sep 2020 4:01 am

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 1 Sep 2020 5:15 am

Don R Brown wrote:.

... to paraphrase the OP, which is always apropos of nothing.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 23 Dec 2020 1:57 pm

Bump.

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 23 Dec 2020 4:17 pm

I'm gettin' nutin' for Christmas,
'Cause I been nutin but bad.

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 23 Dec 2020 4:38 pm

I wonder what prompted Duane to suddenly revive this thread.

Probably nothing.

Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 23 Dec 2020 5:16 pm

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, but unfortunately I have NOTHING to give you.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 23 Dec 2020 11:33 pm

Ian Rae wrote:I wonder what prompted Duane to suddenly revive this thread.

Probably nothing.

Correct, over.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 23 Dec 2020 11:46 pm

You see this here?
This is a bell jar hooked to a vacuum pump.
The job of this apparatus is to create a vacuum in the jar.
The pump obviously sucks all the air out.

What do you see left in the jar?
Do you see anything?
Without the pump, you'd assume there's air, but now you know that there's no air in there either.
So what are you left with?

I rest my case. ðŸ˜ŽðŸš¬

Roy Heap · Post by **Roy Heap** » 24 Dec 2020 3:28 am

Duane, if you have a case to rest, how can that be NOTHING,

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 24 Dec 2020 6:41 am

Roy Heap wrote:Duane, if you have a case to rest, how can that be NOTHING,[/img]

Did you look inside the case?