BS: Thread about nothing

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 07:57 PM

"As Steven Hawking used to say 'creating a universe is like digging a hole. The something you take out of the hole equals the nothing inside the the hole. Added together they are still nothing'."

Reference, please.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 05:06 PM

Hustle your horse and don't say Die! That is in response to something. Points for knowing what.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 12:09 PM

As Steven Hawking used to say 'creating a universe is like digging a hole. The something you take out of the hole equals the nothing inside the the hole. Added together they are still nothing'.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 11:47 AM

Nothing ventured nothing gained. When we think of 'nothing,' we typically think of a space with nothing in it. A space that has zero particles, no particle at every place where a particle could be. Physicists call this the 'vacuum state,' and thanks to quantum mechanics, it has some weird properties.

One of the deepest underlying principles in quantum mechanics is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle—that it's impossible to know both a particle's exact position and its exact momentum. The more you know about one variable, the less you know about the other.

But the uncertainty principle works for other quantities, too. The same principle applies to energy and time. The more you know about a particle's energy, the less you know about when it is, and vice versa. Here, something weird happens: If you know that there will never be a particle at a particular point, suddenly that point could have any amount of energy, sometimes enough to create a particle anyway.

These particles are called 'virtual particles,' and they're basically quantum fluctuations. Once you make enough 'nothing,' the universe starts trying to find a way to fill it, even if that means creating particles out of thin air to do it.

There's also the possibility that the entire universe is just one big virtual particle. The 'vacuum genesis' hypothesis theorizes that the entire universe began as a big fluctuation in the 'nothing' that came before it. While it hasn't been proven, it sure is an interesting idea to think about: that in the end when everything disappears away from every other thing by expansion, all we—you, me, the whole universe—add up to is a big bunch of nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 10:36 AM

As I was going down the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away!

Also, Seinfeld.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 10:09 AM

I did a search:

Amazon- "no results for "BS, a thread about nothing."
"
Subject: RE: Talking Nothin' Blues
From: Bill D - PM
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:11 AM

from memory:
"Well, I looked from the porch to the top of the wall,
Nothin' was there, nothin' at all.
Nothin' at all in any degree,
A predominance of vacancy"

There's a man in this town, goin' around,
Spreadin' nothin' all over the ground.
Heard some passin' people say,
"All that nothin' gets in the way..
There oughta be a law.

I went downtown, some nothin' to buy..
Pile in the window, 40 feet high.
The man in the store, he smile an' say..
'We got plenty o' nothin' today.
All vacuum packed....

Well, this song was written with nothin' in mind
Nothin' at all of any kind.
Nothin' at all in any respect..
We was aided by a poverty of intellect......

(your mileage may differ..)"

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 08:57 AM

We all throw away an average of 5 lbs a day not including our organic waste. It doesn't go to green recycle heaven.
CORRECTION:
There is no such thing as 'away'.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 03:11 AM

Well that was my "nothing" contribution, this isn't!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 03:10 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 10:55 PM

New direction
Nude erection

Sound the same

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:21 PM

Like a sandwich, if you ask me.
There would be a definite beginning, and definite end,
however
anything at all could get crammed in the middle.
I have watched television series-es like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 11:47 AM

How low can it go? This thread is like a bar. Not the kind of bar that serves drinks with a grill on the side and billards, darts and poker in the rear. Its the Holy Ghost of bars that gets lowered first from mountain tops then into the Grand Canyon and now far beneath the ocean. How deep the bar gets lowered is unknown. One would have thought the abysmal depths of the sea would be the end but recent events have proven there is no bottom to lowering the bar. All my life Hitler was the example that the bar could not go lower than Eienstatzgruppen and concentration camp slavery and mass execution.
Then the bar kept going with nuclear weapons and bio weapons and known climate change that only changes its name. There is upward progress but no where near the power of the ever lowering bar. Billionairs are going the wrong way to get a glimpse of the lowering bar so its only a theory to them. You can even get a Nobel Prize for proving the bar is not just going lower but is actually accelerating. The only place left for the bar to go are extra dimensions we do not see, touch or feel. Until we learn how to slow or stop the bar we can't see touch or feel there is no hope of raising the bar except in small hot spots of progress.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 10:03 AM

Is this turning into a thread on everything?

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 06:37 AM

'Anger trumps stupid'.
Entendre or espersion or both?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 06:16 AM

I stylized the words Don&Sarah in ink that was the same upside down like in Angels and Demons.
Also using no spaces I wrote a short piece that told 2 different stories depending on how you would mentally make your own spaces and therefore obviously see different words. There is no word for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 05:41 AM

"Ambigram", not really a 'new' word. It featured prominently in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" (Book 2000, film 2009)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: open mike
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 12:27 AM

YES PALINDROME AND AMBIGRAM... NOW THERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOU...
AMBIGRAM....I LIKE THIS NEW WORD.... SAME RIGHT SIDE UP AS UPSIDE DOWN

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 09:02 PM

Kevin McCarthy why is your tongue all black?
Someone put Guiliani hair dye on Trump's boots.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 08:51 PM

Julian divided by Gregorian = 0.9230769237
A day on Mars is 24.6 hours. On Earth it is 23.9 hours.
Earth orbital length divided by Mars orbital length = 0.65765765765

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 06:07 PM

I follow the ISO style: 20211202.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Charmion
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 05:18 PM

Yup, that’s vacuous.

Subject: BS: Thread about nothing
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 05:13 PM

Blicky

If you write today's date [US style] it is a palindrome, and, in digital-clock font, the same upside down as rightside up!

Got nothing for me?