There's something I've been thinking about for a long time. People have asked me,"Why can't you divide by zero?" And I agree, it's kinda bullshit to ask that question and be told "because it's undefined" or "because that's the rule." I think I've come up a better answer. The reason you can't divide by zero is because you cannot reduce something's existence in the universe. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. So:
Say I have 1 pie (represented by a numeric 1 for 100%). I'm gonna go ahead and divide this by pie 2. The 2 doesn't represent the number of cuts. It represents the number of resulting pieces. The numeric value after "=" defines the size of the individual piece, that way I can put all the pieces of the pie back together later. So I divided it by 2, now I have 2 pieces that are each .5 of the pie. This also stands for dividing something by itself. So if I have 3 pies and I divide them all by 3, I still have just the 3 pies (basically 1, the return of a result meaning everything's still whole). However, if I divide my 3 pies by 6, I end up with 6 pieces that are .5 (so when I multiply my 6 pieces by their stated size, I end up with my 3 original pies). You can't divide by zero because you can't end up with nothing when you started with something. In order to do that, you'd have to be able to reduce something's existence in the universe. You'd have to completely destroy it. The smallest version of something you can have is 1. Doesn't matter if it's .000000000000000001, it's still ends with 1.
You might say that "Well, then why can you multiply something by zero and get zero. You had something and ended with nothing." Not really. It's been shown that multiplication can be done in any order. So 4 * 0 can easily be represented as 0 * 4, which means you're multiplying nothing four times, which is still nothing. The only difference is mathematical grammar. Division however has to be done in a specific order (even if you're dividing 3 by 3, you're still reading it in the proper order).
So the answer is that in order to divide something by zero, you'd have to be able to remove it from existing in the universe. You'd have to destroy its matter. Which you cannot do. It's not to say we couldn't one day figure out how to do it, but at the moment, we can't do it.
It's entirely possible I'm wrong, and if I am, tell me. I've been sitting on this thought a while and want to know if there's holes in it.
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