DougF Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 What to do when you have NOTHING to do? When Scottish Highlanders get bored with their sheep herding! No this is not dirty. Your kids, wife, girlfriend, grandmother, grandfather, husband, boyfriend, or whoever can view this, even Sheep-Herding Shepherds. p.s. These guys are not retired electricians either! NEWS DEFAULT VIRAL ST_UIP (just wonder how many "takes" this took???) :wave::wave::wave::wave: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 nothing is entirely separate or autonomous Ah. There you are. What's up?- Okay, sir, we're ready for the second experiment.Are we analyzing the same Nothing as before?- Well, theoretically, no sir, because Nothing is entirely separate.Nothing is separate?- Yes. That means you cannot analyze the same Nothing twice.So? So...you had to put a new sample of Nothing in the analyzer?- Well, actually, no. The Nothing in the analyzer becomes a new sample.Okay, I give up. How does this Nothing replace the old Nothing?- Damn, how do I explain this? The new Nothing doesn't replace the old Nothing.So how the hell do we have Nothing that isn't the old Nothing?- According to theory, sir, it's because Nothing is autonomous.Autonomous? How the frickin hell can Nothing be autonomous.- Autonomousity is the physical property of not being subject to Natural Law.Nothing is not subject to Natural Law?- Absolutely correct, sir! I couldn't have said it better myself.So what the frick does that mean, you techno-loony!- Please, sir, calm down. It just means that you can assign a nonstate vector to Nothing.This just goes on and on and on, doesn't it? What's a nonstate vector?- It's kind of like a name tag of a particle's identity in Space-Time, sir, only it's blank.You've got ten seconds to say something rational or I pull this trigger.- Wait! Really! The bottom line is, you can't associate an identity to Nothing, except for the null identity.Okay, that begins to make sense. And?- Well, it's Nothing, right! It can't be differentiated from other Nothings.Why do I feel like you're leading me around in a big circle?- It's because Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous! But never both at the same time! See?I hate you. I really, really hate you...- Stop! Nothing is separate, so it's impossible to analyze the same sample of Nothing twice...I have never hated anyone so much as I hate you...- Except you can when Nothing is autonomous -- when it's not bound by Natural Laws...This world would be such a better place without the likes of you...- Because being separate is the only Natural Law that Nothing can obey.There's not a jury in the world that would... Hunh? So, we CAN analyze the same Nothing twice?- Yessir. But only when it's autonomous.And how, pray tell, do we know when our Nothing in the analyzer is autonomous?- Well you can't never know, sir, because of Neitherburg's Nonuncertainty Principle.Which is?- Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous, but you can only tell which when it doesn't matter. :eek2: [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] PREV -- NEXT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Amazon.com: Nothing: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (9780199225866): Frank Close: Books http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0199225869/ I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal, :eek2:Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Nothing makes a good 'read' like a book filled with Nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Nothing makes a good 'read' like a book filled with Nothing.I don't know. I was waiting for a twist near the end, but the book left me somewhat... unfulfilled. Like when you wait the whole year for Christmas only to find nothing under the tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Nothing to do It's a quarter to two and there's nothing to do.So me and my crew are feeling quite blue.The notion just grew that we'd best have a brew.Or get into a stew... or just go cuckoo... The start of a piece of verse I wrote during a very boring nightshift nearly 40 years ago. The words just flowed - I had twenty lines (= 40 unique rhymes for two/do/crew/blue) in less than 15 minutes. Well, it helped to pass the time :hihi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" -Douglas Adams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldcreation Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" -Douglas Adams Hi hi hi... I have (or haven't) written Nothing for a while here at Hypo. Hello Modest, hello all... It's a pleasure to be back. :) CC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Nothing could be better :D Good to see ya ColdCreation ~modest :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Okay, sir, we're ready for the second experiment.-Are we analyzing the same Nothing as before? -Which is?Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous, but you can only tell which when it doesn't matter. :D [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] [bANG!] what bohm meant, or should have meant, or should have said, is what r.t. george has said all along, i.e., nothing is not connected. when nothing is not connected, you can always tell. :) ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 :autumnleaves: :hal_jackolantern: :bat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFINITLYDISTRUBD Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 nothing to see here;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFINITLYDISTRUBD Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 nor here either XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I saw Nothing, officer, and I'm willing to testify in court that I saw it!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFINITLYDISTRUBD Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Lol! XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 :evil: can't dance. :) :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I've never seen Nothing like it, Turtle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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