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no it does not have direction because it isn't there. Just ask yourself this? Which direction would it be?

But yes it does at the same time: equally in all directions. But the point that OPer wants understood, is that zero has no magnitude. So here is a case where no magnitude is tantamount to infinite (but not indefinitely finite) magnitude.

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