If you put a hole in a hole is it solid again

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Or is it somehow even emptier?

You can't, so I'd assume you were drunk

Depends what the first hole was filled with after it was made.

Hm. I wasn't envisaging a hole that had been filled — surely that's not a hole any more? Or… perhaps a hole is just a space filled with a different substance, whether that's air or polyfilla.

Not drunk, sadly. Just incredibly bored because DP is watching some shite on TV but I don't fancy going to bed yet.

It's a bigger hole.

I dont know but I bet it still takes 4,000 to fill the Albert Hall

If you have negative 6 apples and you take away that negative 6 apples you have no apples. But if you have negative 6 apples and take away another (plus) 6 apples then you have negative 12 apples.
So are you adding the extra hole (negative space) or taking it away?

Well it would have to be a smaller hole, maybe a peephole? What would you see? Are you looking forward or back? Is it The Peephole to Infinity?

This is what's bugging me, Trying. I think I need to work out what a hole is…

Is your thinking along the lines of "if you can make a hole in a hole, was the first hole a true hole"?

So now I've gone down this wonderful rabbit hole (pun half intended 😇) I'm wondering... is a hole "something" or "nothing"?

I think it would be a bit like a ring doughnut but air where the doughnut was and doughnut where the air was. So a cake basically.

If the hole is null space, basically zero, then you can add as many holes as you want and you still have zero.

I'm not sure how a hole would be a negative.

@MinesAPintOfTea

If the hole is null space, basically zero, then you can add as many holes as you want and you still have zero.

I'm not sure how a hole would be a negative.

This ^

I would have written something similar if that answer hadn't already been perfect.

Ask Dr. Who

@MinesAPintOfTea But a hole is negative. If you look at a hole in the ground, and ground level bring zero, the hole can take a certain amount of stuff before reaching zero again.

If you continue to dig the hole in the ground you are adding more hole, not actually taking away hole. To take away hole you effectively fill it

That’s not putting a hole in the same place. That’s making a new hole adjacent to the first by taking away material. The hole is the answer to x ground - x ground, it isn’t the removal process.

Good question OP. Very deep.

I knew I should've paid more attention in maths.

Say you created a vacuum inside a hole would that fit your original premise OP? So first you remove the solid particles then the gaseous on the second go.

Ooh, that's an idea.

If you fill in a section of a hole, could that count as making a hole in the hole?

Or is it just making a dent?

You all need to watch this video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Rxep2Mkp8

Good stuff woodpecker you’ve gone one better a hole, in a hole, in a hole. And it is meaningful

Eala, my brain! Thanks for that fascinating video.