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Does everything have an opposite?

>> No.9429787

no

>> No.9429853

you can't say there s an opposite for the universe

>> No.9429868

>>9429853
Nothingness.

>> No.9429871

>>9429853
The null set. Everything has a complement.

>> No.9430134

>>9429868
>>9429871
guess you're right..

>> No.9430169

>>9429762
So do they like share the same dick or just the legs this image is creepy.

>> No.9430178

>>9429762
Thinking in terms of opposites is a brainlet habit for oversimplification.

>> No.9430209

>>9429868
nothingness doesn't exist

>> No.9430238

Opposites are just a semantics game that has more to do with the nature of language and dumb humans oversimplifying things to fit into convenient categories than it has to do with actual real life.

The concept of opposite it is pretty much just putting "not" in front of something. The opposite of wet is not-wet. The opposite of a ham sandwich is not-a-ham-sandwich.


Anyway, since it's just a purely conceptual thing and not actually based on reality, I just need to be able to conceptualize something that doesn't have an opposite.

So I'm imagining a sort of magical widget that has the property of not having an opposite. Checkmate, atheists.

>> No.9430245

>>9430238
This. Think more abstract

>> No.9430265

>>9429762

No, it's just that humans have multiple opposite opinions on everything.

p.s. no sci related and reported

>> No.9430267

>>9430238
If you define the opposite of A to be Not A then by that logic everything has an opposite. Maybe not 1 specific opposite but still

Even if it’s a null set or zero, etc.

And let W represent your widget, then it’s opposite is Not W.

>> No.9430270

Can contextless open-ended babble questions trick people into giving you clicks?

>> No.9430273

>>9430267
Not W can't exist. It's not theoretically possible.

If you were to imagine something like Not W, it would be the opposite of a theoretical object which is similar to but distinctly different from my widget, since it has a property which is different from my widget (since it doesn't have the property of not having an opposite)

>> No.9430274

Nothing can exist without the "opposite".

Back is opposite to front, but without back you cannot have front, and without front you cannot have back. If one exists, then so must the other, they cannot be truly separated, and with that the only conclusion you can draw is that they are the same thing.

>> No.9430280

>>9429762
There is no such thing as anti-gravity.

>> No.9430295

>>9430280

Helium.

>> No.9430298

>>9430295
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_helium_star

>> No.9430303

>>9429853
the mirror universe

>> No.9430308

>>9430298

If the earth doesn't have enough gravitational pull to keep helium pushed towards the center of its mass, then what makes you think helium can provide enough gravitational pull on itself to create an "extreme helium star"?

>> No.9430311

>>9430238
All you did was make not not W. The opposite would be anything that has the property of having an opposite.

>> No.9430327

What's the opposite of salt?

>> No.9430356

>>9429762
no, certain non-invertible mathematical functions have no opposite.
>>9430169
They have no legs, there's one dick, but each of them gets their own testicle
>>9430280
It's permissible in general relativity. There are ways we could make repulsive gravitational forces, but they are impractical with current technology.

>> No.9430361

>>9430327
the same salt, but made of antimatter.

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9430363

>>9430356
>It's permissible in general relativity. There are ways we could make repulsive gravitational forces, but they are impractical with current technology.

>> No.9430367

>>9429762
What is the opposite of something that has an opposite?

Obvious choice would be something that does not have an opposite, which sets up a nice paradox, I guess.

Many things do not have an opposite unless you make the error of reifying their absence. Examples would include light and heat.

>> No.9430370

>>9430265
Announcing that you reported a post is a violation of the rules. I wont tell you what I did about it. Probably nothing.

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9430377

>>9429762
The surface of a Mobius Strip.

>> No.9430381

>>9430363
http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.1969340

>> No.9430395

>>9429787
yes, it does.

But life is far more than dualistic conceptualizations. There is 5 antithesis to every 1 idea. and vice versa. endlessly. Its what we call "society".

>>9429853
..What is matter and anti-matter? Stupid people saying stupid things for 1000 Alex.

>> No.9430476

>>9430209
It might

>> No.9430508

>>9430381
That's pretty neat. Shame that nobody can read it.

>> No.9430581

Farts are just food ghosts

>> No.9430723

>>9430327
salt is the precipitate of the combination of an acid with a base, so the opposite is water

>> No.9430742

>>9430327
Sugar

>> No.9430750

>>9430327
>>9430742
Wait no, pepper