Negativity, in Science

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From: DonH
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In Mathematics, there are negative numbers, but are these relevant to 
Science?
   Science deals with what Exists (1), but non-existence (0) is not a 
negative, as such.
   If you have a bowl of fruit and take some fruit away, such departed 
entities may be negative re the bowl, but have only moved elsewhere.
   Anti-matter?  Is negative matter, or merely a different form of matter?
   Positive and negative electrodes?  A difference in potential?
   Time?  Back from the zero point is negative, or just time in a different 
"direction"?
   (Move the arbitrary starting point backwards, and all becomes positive?)
   Falsification and Verification?  A case of 0, and 1 ?
   Computers are binary: 0 and 1 (off, and on).

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