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The Zero Delusion v0.99x

Zero signifies absence or an amount of no dimension and allegedly exemplifies one of humanity's most splendid insights. Nonetheless, it is a questionable number. Why did algebra embrace zero and dismiss infinity despite representing symmetric and complementary concepts? Why is zero exceptional in arithmetic? Is zero a "real" point? Has it a geometrical meaning? Is zero naturalistic? Is it universal? Digit 0 is unnecessary in positional notation (e.g., bijective numeration). The uniform distribution is unreachable, transmitting nill bits of information is impossible, and communication is never error-free. Zero is elusive in thermodynamics, quantum field theory, and cosmology. A minimal fundamental extent is plausible but hard to accept because of our acquaintance with zero. Mathematical zeroes are semantically void (e.g., empty set, empty sum, zero vector, zero function, unknot). Because "division by zero" and "identically zero" are uncomputable, we advocate for the nonzero algebraic numbers to build new physics that reflects nature's countable character. In a linear scale, we must handle zero as the smallest possible nonzero rational or the limit of an asymptotically vanishing sequence of rationals. Instead, zero is a logarithmic scale's pointer to a being's property via log(1)). The exponential function, which decodes the encoded data back to the linear scale, is crucial to understanding the Lie algebra-group correspondence, the Laplace transform, linear fractional transformations, and the notion of conformality. Ultimately, we define a "coding space" as a doubly conformal transformation realm of zero-fleeing hyperbolic geometry that keeps the structural and scaling relationships of the world.

Zero signifies absence or an amount of no dimension and allegedly exemplifies one of humanity's most splendid insights. Nonetheless, it is a questionable number. Why did algebra embrace zero and dismiss infinity despite representing symmetric and complementary concepts? Why is zero exceptional in arithmetic? Is zero a "real" point? Has it a geometrical meaning? Is zero naturalistic? Is it universal? Digit 0 is unnecessary in positional notation (e.g., bijective numeration). The uniform distribution is unreachable, transmitting nill bits of information is impossible, and communication is never error-free. Zero is elusive in thermodynamics, quantum field theory, and cosmology. A minimal fundamental extent is plausible but hard to accept because of our acquaintance with zero. Mathematical zeroes are semantically void (e.g., empty set, empty sum, zero vector, zero function, unknot). Because "division by zero" and "identically zero" are uncomputable, we advocate for the nonzero algebraic numbers to build new physics that reflects nature's countable character. In a linear scale, we must handle zero as the smallest possible nonzero rational or the limit of an asymptotically vanishing sequence of rationals. Instead, zero is a logarithmic scale's pointer to a being's property via log(1)). The exponential function, which decodes the encoded data back to the linear scale, is crucial to understanding the Lie algebra-group correspondence, the Laplace transform, linear fractional transformations, and the notion of conformality. Ultimately, we define a "coding space" as a doubly conformal transformation realm of zero-fleeing hyperbolic geometry that keeps the structural and scaling relationships of the world.

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or growth) as a fractional response (L {е −αt sin (ωt) u (t)} (s) = ω /((s+α) 2 +ω 2 ),

where u (t) is the unit Heaviside Step Function and α, ω ∈ R). Zero negation,

i.e., assuming α, ω ≠ 0, implies that systems always wave and friction to some

degree and exhibit nonlinear dynamics without exception (see next section). The

poles of a Laplace transform determine a base of nonzero waveform generators

that can reproduce the dynamics of practically all linear systems, e.g., linear

time-invariant systems, and many nonlinear organic systems. For instance, we

conjecture that nature decodes steady ramp impulses (like the rectified linear

activation function in neural networks) as the inverse-square law given by (1),

i.e., L {½t u (t)} (s) = 1

2s

, followed by the effects of gravitational, electric, and

2

radiation phenomena.

6 Zero Computability

On how to get around the inconsistency inherent in zero to achieve full computability

through rationality and the concept of LFT.

6.1 Rationality

We have seen that various sorts of uncertainty dwell in nature’s core. Specifically,

we have reviewed undefined and indeterminate forms, noticing that the cases of

intractability involving zero increase with the complexity of the setting, to wit,

N, Z, Q, R, C, H, and O. We have questioned the benefit of dealing with the

continuum because it is an illusory description of nature, i.e., non-constructible

and uncomputable by definition [33]. Indeed, "mathematical determinism, especially

if it is taken to imply (longtime) computability, is an idealization never

achievable in the empirical world of actual modelling, measurements, and computations"

[110].

R reflects the human’s naïve impression that nature is continuous and reliable

but fails to cope with its inherent discontinuity, imprecision, undefinition, and

undecidability. Gödel’s results usher our axiomatic systems to incompleteness

or inconsistency. Approximation procedures and methods rule measurement and

calculus. Reality is defective, total accuracy is unattainable, and imperfection

is inevitable [81]. It is paradoxical, for instance, to model quantum nonlocality

as emerging from the unphysical exactness [58] of R 3 , the standard threedimensional

Euclidean space, E 3 .

If we disavow the reals, should we not reject the complex setting too? Yes,

we must because no algorithm can decide whether a polynomial x g − a, where

g ∈ Ň and a belongs to a field, is irreducible or can be reduced to factors

of a lower degree [52]. Moreover, according to Abel-Ruffini’s theorem [161], no

algorithm can write in radicals the complex roots of some polynomials of degree

five or higher, so we cannot provide a general representation of the complex

numbers in terms of radicals. Furthermore, we cannot expand those polynomial

roots expressed in radicals in finite time; a factorization algorithm can find only

approximate solutions x − a if a ∈ C.

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