Negative!

Ok here is a question I asked myself recently. How is it possible to have a negative in reality? Information is not a physical thing, information is a collection of facts or data, therefore information is not an object of reality. So how do you have a negative object?

How do I have negative 3 apples, starting from 0 apples? You can't say, "I give you 3 apples, then take them away, and you are now -3 apples" because that is information.

So I was thinking, everything is either a 1 or a 0, how the binary code was created. Everything either is or is not. There is no beyond non-existing, or "-x".

But then I thought to myself, what if the 1 was in reality a -1? What if how we choose to see something can be -1 or 0? Some consider space or "0" to be a thing. Without 0, within what would a 1 exist? Space-Time is in fact a thing, it can be examined frame by frame, viewing events that happened in that space over a period of time. So what if the apple or "1" was in fact taking away space from Space-Time by existing? That would make the apple a -1 from the Space-Time's perspective. Does this mean space is a 1? Does that mean everything is either a 1 or -1 and no 0?

If I had 3 apples, that means those 3 apples are negativing the void by existing, which makes them -3 apples.

LOL HAAAAAAAXXXX!!!!!!!

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this: electric potential, aka voltage. When measuring a voltage source, normally you put the positive to positive and ground to negative. This measures the potential from the positive to ground, thus a positive voltage. However, flip it around (put the ground to positive and positive to negative), you're measuring the potential from ground to positive, hence a negative voltage. Think of it in terms of altitude, it all makes sense in the end.

Negative voltage is most applicable in operational amplifiers, which gives the device a rail voltage to reference to. In some applications, you can trick most opamps to ramp up to either positive or negative voltage, but thats another matter entirely.

Point being: math geeks come up with the language of the science, us actual scientists use it. Negative isn't just a concept to us EEs...