Is Dividing by Zero a Path to the Divine?
John Nosta
I’m a Leading Innovation Theorist in Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine.
Divide by Zero?!
Some of you might remember grade school when the teacher told you that you could NEVER have a zero in the denominator of a fraction. You just can't. Later...maybe in high school or college you might have heard that the "equation blows up" if the bottom part of a fraction is zero.
Hum. I guess we should blame the ZERO! But this over-simplification hides a wonderful and rather profound concept...
OK--A side bar. The actual number zero was introduced by the early Indian culture around the year 600. The first discussion of zero was in the Brahmagupta and was very cool indeed. This text captured many advanced mathematical concepts and was entirely in verse!! Its translated name is "The Opening of the Universe". Wow! Dose that conger up some thinking that can easily put someone on the fast track to Divinity?!
Now, let's get back to nothing. Ahhh...I mean zero.
0/x = 0 (as long as x isn't zero).
Consider n/x, where n is any number great than zero and we let x approach zero, but never quite get there. For example: 1/2, 1/1, 1/.5, 1/.1....etc. What's happening is that the value of the fraction is getting larger and larger. The smaller we make the bottom of the fraction, the bigger the result! We can go as small as we like...and the result is a bigger and bigger number....a number that approaches....ready....infinity!!
So we see, dividing by zero allows us to have a mathematical articulation of the infinite! The equation certainly blows up...but in a rich, intellectual way.
Talking about infinity...well, is conceptually infinite. The association with time, distance, and the metaphysical is a very accessable path to touch the hand, dare I say, of the Creator.
Infinity is the biblical concept of eternity. Our eternal "life" is not "of time" but "beyond time". Simply put, infinity is that timeless sliver of now that lives between the past (only a memory) and the future (not here yet).
So, divide by zero and experience the wonder of mathematical divinity.
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5 年World-Renowned Scholar and Researcher. Dr. Moody is the leading authority on the ‘near-death experience’—a phrase he coined in the late seventies. Dr. Moody’s research into the phenomenon of near-death experience had its start in the 1960′s. The New York Times calls him “the father of the near-death experience. My primary interest hasn’t changed since I was about eight years old. Namely, I am interested in things that don’t make sense—that are unintelligible, meaningless or nonsensical. Some of the most important questions of human existence are literally unintelligible. I got interested in unintelligibility when I first looked through a telescope. “What size and shape is the universe?” I wondered. The universe must either come to an end in space—have a boundary—or it must be infinite in space. If the universe ends in a spatial boundary—a wall, in effect—it raises an obvious problem. Namely we can’t conceive of a wall with nothing on the other side. If the universe has no spatial boundary, or is infinite—that is unintelligible too! There are only two possible answers,
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5 年John Pappan M.A., M.S., M.S. I guess you wil love this Professor Pappan, considering your interest in theology.
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5 年John Nosta Hello Sir I will asap share with you what Dr Raymond Moody said about the Z axis that goes in outer space. It is related to your inference of mathematical equation for infinity.
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6 年https://juniperpublishers.com/bboaj/pdf/BBOAJ.MS.ID.555703.pdf ゼロ除算（division by zero）1/0=0、0/0=0、z/0=0 2018年05月28日(月) テーマ：数学 これは最も簡単な 典型的なゼロ除算の結果と言えます。 ユークリッド以来の驚嘆する、誰にも分る結果では ないでしょうか？ Hiroshi O. Is It Really Impossible To Divide By Zero?. Biostat Biometrics Open Acc J. 2018; 7(1): 555703. DOI: 10.19080/BBOJ.2018.07.555703 ゼロで分裂するのは本当に不可能ですか？ - Juniper Publishers https://juniperpublishers.com/bboaj/pdf/BBOAJ.MS.ID.555703.pdf 再生核研究所 ゼロ除算の発見と重要性を指摘した：2014年2月2日
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