What exactly is nothing?

Question

Please define nothing?????nothingness???

Answer 1

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Answer 2

If you are refering to space it would mean a defined area with no atoms, electrons, protons... parts of particles, energies (heat energy (if an atom was inside of nothing the electrons would not orbit around it, they would just be stuck, -400K), light (which is a particle traveling at the speed of light), any "wave" of energy(even though we dont know them all yet, like gravity which is created by gravitons in particles (one particle pulls on another no matter how far away, eventually they will join).



Chances are the only "Nothingness/Nothing" is on the outside of our universe as it expands outwards at the speed of light. (if you believe in the big bang) There is no way to pull a vacume that strong, keep it that cold, and not allow any "energies" to pass through, all you would end up with is an almost empty defined area.



Assuming the formula for Gravity is correct, the universe will continue expanding untill all the molecules and energies are pulled back in by their own gravity.



This "theory" of nothing, could all be easier to explain by teaching the big bang theory, then tieing two balls together with a string of rubber, have two people throw the two balls in oppisite directions, they will fly back to where they were thrown from.

Just past the maximum distance one of the balls flew from where they were thrown would be Nothing, or Nothingness, so to define nothing:



Nothing or Nothingness would be the area outside the maximum distance (radius from origin of big bang) any molecule or energy will ever reach before stopping and being pulled back in towards the center of the universe due to gravity. (people have theorized that when this shift happens time will reverse and rewind, thus leaving us to wonder has the universe been repeating itself over and over again)(my theory is that since we are alive, we represent a chaos that will change the next collapse and expansion of the universe).

Answer 3

Traditionally nothing has meant vacuum or space, but these days even that idea is challenged. When scientists and philosophers speculate about what is outside our universe they say "nothing," meaning absolutely nothing. Not even vacuum.



What that means, or how that is possible, is beyond my comprehension.



It is said that space (vacuum) was created at the Big Bang.



An analogy often used to describe the formation of the universe is a balloon dipped in paint. The Big Bang is compared to the inflation of the balloon. When the balloon expands the paint breaks apart exposing the underlying surface of the balloon. That paint is analogous to the stars, the galaxies, and other various forms of matter while the exposed balloon surface represents space or vacuum.



What is beyond the balloon? Nothing.

Answer 4

The concepts of both zero and infinity are rather difficult to grasp because we rarely, if ever, experience this. Nothing is exactly what it sounds like, there is absolutely nothing. Zero. When someone says they have nothing they are using the word incorrectly, nothing is the absence of all things which exist. Although he says he has nothing he actually has much including his body and so on... But if he had nothing he could never communicate this because he would have nothing to communicate this with, nor nothing to communicate this to, nor nowhere to communicate this at, nor nowhen to communicate this at.



Its a good question you are asking. A concept everyone has heard of but few grasp. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

i think the universe is created like this there is nothing so there is somthing so that nothing can be, now theres 2 nothing and somthing. but 2 makes 3 and 3 is nothing and somthing togeather. theres 1 and 1 = 2 so theres is 3 and three is (1 + 1 = 2) three numbers now 1 + 1 = 3 so there is 4 because we have 1,1,2(1) and 4 is what seperats thoes 3... lol just and idea so without nothing we cannot have somthing.

Answer 6

Hi, Nothing is nothing, until you make it something. Then you

have to see it or feel it or hear it, and then you have something.

You are something , you hear me. Stored in everyones

sub-concious mind is everything we have ever seen ,saw or heard or felt. And we have the amazing ability to recall them

from day one. This is a built in protection for our well being

as a human being. A lot of people just recall bad times, and

that is why they are depressed most of their life. I myself

dwell on the good recalls that i have stored for 40 yrs. now. C Ray

Answer 7

Mathematically 1/1=1 2/2=1 infinity/infinity=1 0/0=0 1X1=1 0X0=0 infinityXinfinity=infinity so if you hold your hand out infront of you are you holding nothing or everything? if you turn it upside down did you drop nothing or everything? it is all in the perception on what value you give to it.

Answer 8

Nothingness according to me is a state of singularity. Imagine what would have filled the space before the big bang

Answer 9

Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]

1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word

thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

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Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.

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2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;

nothingness. --Shak.

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3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something

irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative

unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

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Answer 10

This has been debated for the past 30 years by Particle Physicysts, Cosmologists, and Mathematicians, each redefining the concept of zero.

Answer 11

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

Answer 12

something/infinity=nothing

a void in space from where everything is absent.So it can be considered as space so it does seem to be something.Just like zero in mathematics.Even though it has no value it is used in mathematical operations just as any other number except that it produces answers which are different from the others.

Answer 13

Wow... a great question...



Nothing would be the space that has no atoms. Maybe a vacuum.



Mathematically, nothing would be the square of an irrational number...lol!

Answer 14

There was once a man from Bengal, who had an octagonal ball. The cube of its weight times eight makes two thirds of three fifths of damn all.

Answer 15

My dad explained this to me this way when I was a kid. I always got $2.00 a week allowance. He said if I give it to you , you have something, If I don't give it to you , are you loose it, you have nothing. Ouch. So the way I see it is , you can't have a something without a nothing, or other way around.

Answer 16

"Nothing" is an emty set. {}. Keep always in mind that the zero "0" is not 'nothing". If zero is presentq tnhere is one element in the set - {"0"}q so this is not an emty setq but a set with 1 element, namely ther zero.

Answer 17

Nothing is the absence of EVERYTHING.

Answer 18

You see the definitions above. Now, try to think of "nothing". It's difficult, isn't it? If you can get to the point where you can think of "nothing" you are truly living in the moment.

Answer 19

the absence of anything

Answer 20

BY PHYSICS IF A BODY HAS NO MASS OR ATTRACTION IT IS NOT THERE AS THE INTERMOLECULAR SPACES BETWEEN THE MOLECULES FOR U235 ARE CAPABLE OF HOLDING NO SOLUTIONARY MATTER AND THEREFORE THE SPACE THEIR IS 100% NOTHING

Answer 21

It is the absence of all matter... (vacuum )... like black is the absence of all colour.. like DUH is the absence of any understanding of what I am talking about. JOKE... Nothing is the absence of absolutely all matter.

Answer 22

there is no such thing as nothing, if you take the term scientifically, except may be vacum, but if the term is taken figuratively then almost everything is nothing.

Answer 23

cant see this

Answer 24

a black hole creates nothing. no light whatsoever, no space, only extreme gravity, which i guess is something but in regular outer space there is still light

Answer 25

Therein lies the paradox--the very idea of nothing, is still something!

Answer 26

1.A quantity of no importance

2.A nonexistent thing

3.In no way;to no degree (he looks nothing like his father)

Answer 27

Wrong categary

Answer 28

Thats simple its what you will find in a super black hole in space

Answer 29

If there is some thing then it is not nothing.

Answer 30

nothing... is when there is 0 of it

Answer 31

blank and no one in mind, may be to hide some thing.

Answer 32

nothing=nada=blank

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an empty space

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clearly blank

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not doing something

Answer 36

ni-hilo-ni-hil-fit ... in other words



From nothing .. nothing is made

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is no thing

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NOTHING!!!!!

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