Hamza Omer is an aerospace engineer, a musician, and a non-practicing self-proclaimed intellectual. He is a published researcher with more than 12 years of experience in the field of mechanical vibration and shock with particular interest in its impact on humans and structures. His research journey has taken him to quite a few unique destinations around the world including his months-long sojourn in Antarctica and some of the remotest islands on the planet. With years of training in Eastern music, he is the founding member of the music band called Sarkash and has recently started a new music collaboration called Dili-Naghmay. As a passionate student of life, Hamza has a keen interest in exploring the intersections of creativity, logic, mindfulness, and the conscious experience.
Talkshop Description:
What is the Value of Zero? Zero is a number, a concept, a paradox. Zero is the nothingness, it precedes the beginning of something but it is also the void left behind after the end of everything. What does it mean in the context of our existence? Our life? Viewed through the lens of modern science our entire selves, tangible and intangible, body and mind, matter and energy, form part of the limitless continuum of time and space. All of our experiences can be interpreted as the constant flux of matter and energy, the result of which must invariably be zero, for neither can be created or destroyed. If we talk about space, the vast ever-expanding nothingness that surrounds us, the space that we occupy in comparison, our cities, our countries, our whole planet in fact is infinitesimal. Likewise, when it comes to the dimension of time, our short duration on this planet, our civilizations, the entire epoch of homo sapiens pales in relation to the insanely large timescale of the universe. When we consider the expanse of this universe, our entire existence seems so small, so insignificant that it can be approximated to zero. Does it mean that our lives and all our achievements are insignificant? Does our conscious experience amount to nothing? Are we, zero?
How does that feel? Terrifying? Or Liberating?
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