(catisback) no. zero is a man-made concept. but...if you get a hole in your car's radiator...then that's actually something.
(children_of_the_dragon_cn) This question is more like on metaphysics than actual physics.
Depends wholly on your definition. With regards to physics, then a hole in some matter is just absence of matter in a four-dimensional spacetime.
If you are talking about black holes or singularities, for example, that's actually the absence of spacetime all together.
(David Dodeca) This is more a metaphysics type question eh? Websters... a: to have real being whether material or spiritual b: to have being in a specified place or with respect to understood limitations or conditions
I would rule that a hole is an observed ABSENCE of existence.
"The paper has a hole" means the paper has an absence of cellulose at a specific location.
In describing a hole, one is describing the state of something rather than the existence of something.
(frediwhite@verizon.net) It can even carry information, like the hole in a punched card. wow.
(catisback)
ReplyDeleteno. zero is a man-made concept.
but...if you get a hole in your car's radiator...then that's actually something.
(children_of_the_dragon_cn)
This question is more like on metaphysics than actual physics.
Depends wholly on your definition. With regards to physics, then a hole in some matter is just absence of matter in a four-dimensional spacetime.
If you are talking about black holes or singularities, for example, that's actually the absence of spacetime all together.
(David Dodeca)
This is more a metaphysics type question eh?
Websters...
a: to have real being whether material or spiritual
b: to have being in a specified place or with respect to understood limitations or conditions
I would rule that a hole is an observed ABSENCE of existence.
"The paper has a hole" means the paper has an absence of cellulose at a specific location.
In describing a hole, one is describing the state of something rather than the existence of something.
(frediwhite@verizon.net)
It can even carry information, like the hole in a punched card. wow.