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o_O.Q said:
DonFerrari said:
What is the opposite of a straight line? A bent line? Can't use all that isn't one thing (like infinite things) as opposite to a single thing.

Also the "laws" you used (sine wave) isn't verified perfectly as that in the nature, they are perfect sine in theorical description, if you measure most of the things that generate sine wave it won't be perfect sine... there are a lot of discrepancies in the signal... also, what is the opposite of Sine? If you say cosine just because they are basically 90 degrees offset or that the sum of sine and cosine you would have nil, if you subtract you would get twice the signal not infinite...

Your logic just fits on your pretty straight definitions.


"What is the opposite of a straight line?"

 that is an interesting one i'm honestly not sure but i'd say that the opposite of straight would be bent i would think

 

"Can't use all that isn't one thing (like infinite things) as opposite to a single thing."

i don't understand

 

"Also the "laws" you used (sine wave) isn't verified perfectly as that in the nature, they are perfect sine in theorical description, if you measure most of the things that generate sine wave it won't be perfect sine"

 

sure because there is a difference between ideal/theoretical and practical

however, i didn't say that would be the case what i did say is that the sine wave can be used to model the opposing forces that form our reality

 

" also, what is the opposite of Sine? "

 any wave that cancels it therefore a wave with the same magnitude and frequency that is 180 degrees out of phase with it


The first two items are the answer for the question...

There are infinite things that aren't a perfect straight line, so you can't say not straight (or bent) is the opposite of straight (they are opposite just in gramatic but not in mathematic).

Again what I'm saying is that in logic you can 't have one thing opposite to all else that isn't it... opposition is binary. Like the method to prove something is right is like proving that all else is wrong (won't enter the details, but it basically is proving by negative).

 

Sine wave is the way human can use to explain (or model) the things in nature. It doesn't necessarily mimic the phenomenom.

if you put phase 180 degrees for sine you still get sine. cosine is the 90 degree phase of sine. So they aren't exactly opposites, you could use them as they are binary in opposition. Now you see the difference?

The cold/hot opposition per example... it really is amount of heat and how you perceive... so 0k or absolute zero (would be your coolest point) is the "total absence of heat" while we still don't know what is the maximum existing heat as far as I'm aware to have the 2 opposites, altough they wouldn't be opposite, just the 2 extremes of a scale.



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