OT: Contact

[dogscoff]

Fyron starts sounding, like, all spaced out... man..:

Space is nothing. It is empty... space ... It is the same sort of nothing that the volume inside a box is...The universe is contained inside space... No apples and no oranges. Zero. And like zero, if you add more space to the space you have, you still just get the same space. Both are infinite in size.

Maybe I'm misreading you or misinterptetting your terminology and I'll just be re-iterating what you just said, but I think i may have to disagree with you here.

As my very limited pop-science oft string theory has it, even a total, absolute vacuum is still made of something. String, probably, hence the silly name of the theory. Anyway, you could imagine that vacuum as a variable with the value of zero mass, which is still a value.

However whatever lies beyond the edges of the universe would not even be made up of string (or whatever that theory was on about) and might therefore be more properly described as a variable with 'null' value- or maybe just not a variable at all.

Now pass me whatever you been smoking F, I want me some 'o that...

[ May 20, 2004, 13:10: Message edited by: dogscoff ]