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The anti-everything?
Jewelman
Knightsundere
I was recently thinking about a DC Comics character called Bizarro who is a failed clone of Superman. He lives in an alternate dimension which is the total opposite of the normal continuity. For example, Earth is a cube, and instead of heat vision and freeze breath, Bizarro has freeze vision and heat breath.
But I thought, isn't the opposite of everything technically nothing? I mean, if you were going to take some random thing... for example, the colour red, then why isn't it's opposite something that isn't a colour, much less a thing? If you're going to have the total opposite of something that does exist, you might as well have nothing at all.
But there's a problem with that. If you were going to take the colour black, for example, then the opposite of that wouldn't exist. But then it would be impossible for it to be white, which is the opposite colour to black, but then it would exist and if it existed it wouldn't be the total opposite...
I can't wrap my head around this. I was wondering what you guys thought.
But I thought, isn't the opposite of everything technically nothing? I mean, if you were going to take some random thing... for example, the colour red, then why isn't it's opposite something that isn't a colour, much less a thing? If you're going to have the total opposite of something that does exist, you might as well have nothing at all.
But there's a problem with that. If you were going to take the colour black, for example, then the opposite of that wouldn't exist. But then it would be impossible for it to be white, which is the opposite colour to black, but then it would exist and if it existed it wouldn't be the total opposite...
I can't wrap my head around this. I was wondering what you guys thought.
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I think you're confusing opposite with inverse.
Opposite refers to an "intent" in the other direction; ergo, sweet is opposite to salt, evil is opposite to good, white is opposite to black, etc. etc. These are all meanings founded in intent, meaning that they are what is working against the original "thing" in question.
Meanwhile, "inverse" is the true, complete reversal of an object. It's a bit more mathematical in nature. -1 is the inverse of 1, for example; neither of those things have any firm basis about what they are beyond unit nomination, so thusly, we have no idea what the theoretical inverse is (this is likely what you're confused about).
More in my own opinion, since I can't prove anything, anything that is physical and visible doesn't have an "inverse". The closest I can think to something that creates an inverse would be a black hole, but what goes on inside one of those things is just as up in the air as what you and I are talking about.
Good topic for discussion, though.
Opposite refers to an "intent" in the other direction; ergo, sweet is opposite to salt, evil is opposite to good, white is opposite to black, etc. etc. These are all meanings founded in intent, meaning that they are what is working against the original "thing" in question.
Meanwhile, "inverse" is the true, complete reversal of an object. It's a bit more mathematical in nature. -1 is the inverse of 1, for example; neither of those things have any firm basis about what they are beyond unit nomination, so thusly, we have no idea what the theoretical inverse is (this is likely what you're confused about).
More in my own opinion, since I can't prove anything, anything that is physical and visible doesn't have an "inverse". The closest I can think to something that creates an inverse would be a black hole, but what goes on inside one of those things is just as up in the air as what you and I are talking about.
Good topic for discussion, though.
