The surprising world of Zero The emancipation of the First Cardinal

A new conviction is here conterpoused to the atavic belief that the Zero is comparable to the concept of Nothingness. Zero is the world, it is the primordial egg that contains life, that contains everything. The graphic symbol for Zero differs from the letter O exactly because of its very own oval shape. Egg-like shape, that is. The reader is guided to the understanding of the fullness of the Zero. An infinite Zero, a thing of infinite beauty, which contains infinite sets. This is not a mathematical demonstration: an attempt to do so would be like an attempt to provide a mathematical demonstration of the existence of God (which many have actually attempted and many still do). This is more like a circumstantial trial, where many evidences are collected from a wide range of fields. Our journey takes off from the history of numbers and numbering systems among various civilizations. A numbering system in base 10 is easy to conceive, but why did the Sumerians choose a system in base 60? A system in base 60 makes calculus really, really complicated. The ancient Romans did not feel like they needed the Zero and the negative numbers were unconceivable for them. Who introduced these concepts for the first time? For centuries after it was born, poor Zero has been variously and often anthitetically interpreted, and it still is. So much for being just a Zero. Everyone had something to say about it: philosophers, theologists, mathematicians. This essay is like a large folder of evidence, and a lot of evidence would suggest that the proclamation of the fullness of the Zero is needed at last, as is the rejection of the current opinion that it actually amounts to nothing. Once the Zero is redeemed, so is redeemed anyone who has ever been called a Zero. You would be lucky to be a real Zero, for everything is in the Zero, even before that it comes into being. Like precious marble for Michelangelo Buonarroti, the sculptor, who could see his works before he liberated them from the matter. Like the Nothingness from which God created the world, mankind, and all creatures. Now that Nothingness cannot be nothing. It is more similar to the Everything, closer to the Zero-universe here considered.