the full-_fool-fill-_ling-^menn / _t of the hałf-full glas(s)

gannzheightlichkeight · gogn · the ha-ha-ha-ffffff.

Yesterday, as i returned to my parents' home, to further clean up those old childhood-issues of mine, and to borrow some more money from my mum, she said at some point: »For me the glas is always half-full, for him [my father] the glas is always half-empty.«

I was happy to have the chance to disappoint her:

¡ the glas is å l wey s full !

»If it is only half-full of liquid« i continued, »the rest is full of air.«

I thought about that some months ago, and spoke about it with Emma at a dance presentation at Tanzfabrik. We first met some years ago on the streets of Berlin. Neukölln, when i spontaneously joined and tried to accompany her and Moss' singing.

Emma and Moss were promoting their upcoming Tralalka concerts with vocal street performances – bulgarian singing. That blew me away and sent shiver-armies up and down my spine. Excited like a flummy i asked, if i could join them with some beatboxing.

Sure yes !

My german genes had serious difficulties with adapting to these eastern-european 5/4, 7/4, 9/4 or whatsoever-patterns… In addition i was super out of practice, since i quit singing and boxing beats with Jazzvocals and add9 some years ago.

Nevermind!

Who cares?

Blame Canada!

Back to the story: In Emma's opinion, empty glasses were possible and the most common thing. When i told her, that, even if the glas was empty, it was always full of emptyness, she instantly replied like a machine gun:

Then it is empty of fullness!

Hmm.

Maybe i should have said ›air‹ instead of ›emptiness‹?

She made her point – and me think:

Does that ›empty‹ exist? Is there real emptiness? A true vacuum? Somewhere in this universe?

I instantly took my telephone-joker and wrote a message to Hagen, an academicly hyper-intelligent and science-addicted friend of mine. Hagen has the ability, to easily put the most complex, universal issues into words, smallest school-kids can grasp.

So i asked him: »Is there an absolute vacuum? Is there absolute emptiness – without any kind of particles?«

If he would say yes, my theory would be down in a second.

He wrote back, that »free from ›oridanary‹ particles (Electrones, Neutrones & Protones) would be possible to assemble. Expensive but possible. But it definitely ends with Neutrinos™. On earth there are about 65 Billion Neutrinos from the sun, that interfuse every second every square-centimeter, that stands vertical to the sun. That's a lot. :) «

Ål raight!

Cool!

My heart & mind jumped around happily and i replied:

Thanks!

You just made my day! You are so much cooler than wikipedia! Hier is a star for you:

*

Okay, almost sure. But not sure-sure. I only had to wait moments for the next question to pop up:

»What about the very last corners of the universe – or the way towards them, or maybe even outside of them: Is there an absolute emptiness around somewhere?«

Here is his answer (in fonetkthorscher Beuhrbaitunng™):

»There are no rearmost corners//areas in the universe.