What is nothing?

[Thief]

Yeah, but it's quickly becoming a 'wordy' paradoxical redundancy.

As for time, space, and other geometry....
That all disappears when the singularity collapses unto itself.

 

[freethinker44]

So I guess you should define 'nothing' before this debate could go on.

Defining nothing is the subject of this thread.

I don't think anyone here has any doubts as to what nothing actually is, but in order to describe something that doesn't exist, we must first, make it exist and then take that existence away. Or maybe nothing itself doesn't exist, maybe there is no such thing as nonexistence and nothing is just a concept created by humans that doesn't have any practical purpose, but then, even this is a paradox.

It's just an exsercise in critical thinking.

 

[raw_thought]

I will have to ponder post 11!

 

[raw_thought]

Perhaps it sheds light on an observer created reality. Or perhaps I am confusing epistemology with ontology .

 

[raw_thought]

Perhaps "nothing" is a subject without predicates. Or perhaps I should ponder more!

 

[raw_thought]

If nothing cannot exist then something must exist! The ultimate explanation as to why there is something (our universe )!

 

[Steven Kowalski]

Nothing:
- non-existence
- absence of existence in a space (physical, work, social-personal, mind, etc.) that could contain something.

 

[Steven Kowalski]

Exactly. How do you describe something as nothing. The minute you realize it is nothing, it is then something.

If it is nothing, it's either nothing or void. With nothing there is no it. If you can see IT, there is something you see, IT. Nothing wouldn't exist. If there's nothing there... where? there... there is nothing. There is there but nothing is there in that space. If you're imagining nothing as a blank space, it's actually a space... it just has nothing in it. So there's a space, that's something. But it would be correct to say nothing is in the space. But it's not 'nothing', it's 'nothing there'. Nothing can only be sensed if we make it something. Which means that it's not nothing, but it's closer than something. So... a blank space with nothing in it.. or a point... or a white sheet of paper..

It's easier to create something if something already exists.. like space or paper. Creating something from nothing though... not an easy feet. Something would have to be there. Something that senses and resurrects something from nothing, using what it has. Itself. And whatever it creates. And all of creation made within that space where nothing existed stems from this force.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Defining nothing is the subject of this thread.

Nothing is an absence of something....

 

[Agathion]

Nothing is nothing is nothing....