“Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus, SI Version Ninth Edition” by Allyn J. Washington (Pearson Education, 2010) states on p.9 that "if 0/0 = b, then 0 = 0 × b, which is true for any value of b. Therefore, no specific value of b can be determined." In other words, dividing by 0 is a no-no in maths. It seems that dividing by zero is perfectly OK after all, and we'll have to rebuild all those sophisticated calculators that produce an error message when you try to divide by zero. Let's look at the video “Black Holes” (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:ANUx+ANU-ASTRO3x+1T2016/courseware/cd30a76f06d94c39bd4283d39c624304/ab97a991ebc24b6ebfc9cf0330b58b24/4?activate_block_id=block-v1%3AANUx%2BANU-ASTRO3x%2B1T2016%2Btype%40problem%2Bblock%40f090255c10c5470b8febc9c8cee2fa36) and a statement in it by Dr. Paul Francis,
"But here, your density is your mass divided by the volume.
The volume is 0, so any mass at all gives you infinite density."
What does m/0 truly mean? It says zero goes into mass a certain number of times. How many times? Any other number gives a finite result. But zero will go into any mass an infinite number of times. Mathematically, this means m/0 equals infinity. Zero reminds me of the idea of quantum fluctuations - which are proposed by modern science in order to create the universe from nothing. Quantum fluctuations actually happen because they’re temporary changes in the amount of energy at points in space. But this doesn’t mean the universe can be created from nothing (from zero alone) because everything originated with the alleged Big Bang, and there was no energy or time in which quantum fluctuations could occur.
But it is possible that the universe could originate from the 1's and 0's used in electronics i.e. something (1) would now be added to nothing (0) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius would have been correct 2,000 years ago when he said, “nothing can be created from nothing”. This switching between 1's and 0's, in an eternal universe, would be quantum fluctuations. This paradoxical origin of eternity might be explained by words of Dr. Graham Phillips from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV program "Catalyst" -
"the physicist and writer Paul Davies thinks the universe is indeed fine-tuned for minds like ours. And who fine-tuned it? Not God, but minds from the future, perhaps even our distant descendants, that have reached back through time … and selected the very laws of physics that allow for the existence of minds in the first place. Sounds bizarre, but quantum physics actually allows that kind of thing". ("Custom Universe – Finetuned For Us?”, August 29 2013)
How could the universe originate from the 1's and 0's used in electronics? It's conceivable that we'll learn enough about quantum mechanics in the next ten thousand years to realize that it functions like Chaos Theory, has a hidden order, is really deterministic, and yields exactness. We could go into a lab, take the binary digits of electronics (the BITS of 1 and 0), and program computers with the laws of nature. To make a universe for those laws to function in (starting small with a lab-size cosmos), we could draw a two-dimensional (2D) Mobius strip with the BITS, combine 2 strips into a 3D figure-8 Klein bottle, and give the bottles the 4 dimensions of space-time by incorporating Wick rotation - and thus a 4th dimension of time - into their component Mobius strips.
Scientists believe the universe began with a single massive explosion of energy and light, known as the Big Bang Theory. They see it as the starting point (zero point) of everything that exists now.
None of what we observe today existed just before this point (zero).
Moreover, scientists argue that what caused the creation of everything that exists now was out of date, space, or even matter. But the realization that the universe originated at a certain point (zero point), and that it did not exist before, also poses a serious challenge to unbelieving scientists!
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