The God Equation: The Power of None
When you ask Siri what zero divided by zero is, she responds with:
Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends.
How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie
Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.
It is a flippant and funny answer, and it will do for most people not steeped in mathematics. However, it isn’t necessarily correct. If you express 0/0 as a fraction, you get three possibilities using normal fraction logic:
As a division problem, all numbers real and imagined answer the question. Because any number multiplied by zero is zero, so every number makes the answer true.
However, mathematicians and scientists tend to take Siri’s side. The question doesn’t make sense. How can you have nothing and divide it by nothing? There is no way to figure that out because how can people manipulate nothing? In math, you are simply not allowed to divide by zero.
And that’s where the equation draws its power.
According to Scientific American, zero didn’t exist as a number for a long time. It was first a place holder and then a sort of number, which some cultures resisted because it had “darkly magical connotations.” It became what it is now around 1200 A.D.
So, let’s step away from the conventions of mathematics and the strict rules that won’t allow for any wiggle room. If all real and imaginary numbers satisfy the division problem, and the universe started at nothing with the creator also having no form. These to divided into each other and the universe came to be.
See how the Earth came to be, below the ad.
Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends.
How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie
Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.
It is a flippant and funny answer, and it will do for most people not steeped in mathematics. However, it isn’t necessarily correct. If you express 0/0 as a fraction, you get three possibilities using normal fraction logic:
- Any fraction with zero as the top number is zero.
- Any fraction with a number that is the same both in the numerator and the denominator, the fraction is 1.
- Any fraction with a zero at the bottom is undefined.
As a division problem, all numbers real and imagined answer the question. Because any number multiplied by zero is zero, so every number makes the answer true.
However, mathematicians and scientists tend to take Siri’s side. The question doesn’t make sense. How can you have nothing and divide it by nothing? There is no way to figure that out because how can people manipulate nothing? In math, you are simply not allowed to divide by zero.
And that’s where the equation draws its power.
According to Scientific American, zero didn’t exist as a number for a long time. It was first a place holder and then a sort of number, which some cultures resisted because it had “darkly magical connotations.” It became what it is now around 1200 A.D.
So, let’s step away from the conventions of mathematics and the strict rules that won’t allow for any wiggle room. If all real and imaginary numbers satisfy the division problem, and the universe started at nothing with the creator also having no form. These to divided into each other and the universe came to be.
See how the Earth came to be, below the ad.