Jeremy Read

And the universe ceased to exist

September 29, 2006 on 7:56 pm | In Contemplation | | Jeremy Read

Last week I went to a Math 255 tutorial. And the lecturer dropped this bombshell on us.

2=0

Which was the solution to the question [involving fields]. Which was required for this particular question and it’s perfectly valid to set something to being equal to zero.

It has the interesting consequence of making 1+1 = 0 though, which does do some strange stuff.

It’s even more fun when you extend it further with every number is equal to zero. Which does make maths easier. As you can be confident that both sides of the equation are probably zero.

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  1. Yes, if only this approach could be applied to quantum. however in quantum we have the additional equation: “2!=0″, in fact “0!=0″.

    More custard, muffins and royal crown draft cola are needed for this.

    Comment by RadioactivePhoenix — 8:55 pm — September 29, 2006 #

  2. You’d be surprised what you can fix with custard

    Comment by Jeremy Read — 8:56 pm — September 29, 2006 #

  3. Very. I don’t really want to know more. some of those images today were… not good. not good at all

    Comment by RadioactivePhoenix — 8:58 pm — September 29, 2006 #

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