4 Quotes by Mike Hockney about zero



  • Author Mike Hockney
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    Math is nothing – eternally structured, dynamic nothingness. Why does anything exist? Because it’s a special type of nothing – mathematical nothing. It needs nothing, expends nothing, and nothing can stop it, and that’s exactly why it can endure forever. There is only one perfect perpetual motion machine: mathematical nothingness, which is also everything.

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  • Author Mike Hockney
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    Infinity itself may constitute a strange loop, i.e. as you get further and further from zero, you unexpectedly end up right back at zero. When people talk of infinity, they invariably say that you can always add “1” to a number to get a larger number. But imagine that you add “1” and unexpectedly find yourself back at zero. In that case, infinity is actually a “bounded infinity.

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