why not nothing?

Question

i first asked is there anybody out there? but i was listening to some music and found a better question.

my thoughts on it are ... in science as i know there isn't such a thing as nothing i like to relate it to life... if we never have nothing then there is always something.

Answer 1

According to Martin Heidegger ( a German Philosopher and an Existentialist) NOTHING IS SOMETHING.
By this he means that it is only against the background of nothingness that Being stands out. We are able to recognise Being (existents / something) only if it stands out from nothingness. If there was nothing then how would we be able to distinguish and recognise something. So NOTHING IS SOMETHING.

T.W.D, omi.

Answer 2

There isn't such a thing as nothing? I would say that the vaccuum of space (or one created in the laboratory, by sucking all the air out of a container) is a good example of "nothing".

Unless you want to consider "nothing" an object unto itself, and then you are playing word games best left to abstract mathematician. Fortunately, that is my background (putting on beanie with a propellor right now...)

The empty set represents "nothing", a condition where there are no objects that have a certain property. However, a set A containing the empty set is not itself empty! Go to the kitchen, make a sandwich, play a couple of rounds of your favorite video game, then re-read this paragraph. You will become enlightened after much meditation (chant sounds begin in the background here...)

Answer 3

People are so anti-nothing these days. I believe there is a void however, and in the end it will swallow everything, though at the moment it contents its non-self simply nibbling on the edges of reality.

We are like worms crawling on a chess board, saying 'we have length and width, and that must be all there is. Everything is long and wide.' In this example, nothing is depth... It's a state of mind more than anything else perhaps, but how, as worms, could we ever fathom it? This dangerous naming faculty we have- just because we apply a word to something, we believe it exists, and can be manipulated as easily as the word itself....

Answer 4

i guess in terms of science and math....and i'm no expert....there is such a thing as nothing. the absence of matter maybe? that exists. black hole maybe? anti-matter? zero=absence of a mathematical value=nothing
but it's easy to get wrapped up in words and semantics. even the word "nothing" acknowledges it is something. meaning that nothing is the opposite of something. meaning it exists.
in philosophy there is something called nothing and no-thing. and from there on out it just gets more and more confusing. there is no right or wrong answer philosophically about this issue of nothing. heidegger's being and time is a good place to start and sartre's being and nothingness is another take on it. but it's definitely not easy or light reading.

Answer 5

We can not have nothing because there always has to be something there. Nothing is a vacuum where not even air exists but even then you have something because you have a vacuum and if you have a vacuum then you muist have it inside something, therefore even the vacuum inside has something there because there is the wall of the container. If you see the Never Engding Story, you see that there is the "nothingness" which eats the land. But this nothing leaves blackness so it is something. It is impossible to have nothing at all.

Answer 6

There's the sun to keep me warm. And the rocks to keep me cool. There will always be something..

Answer 7

Sadly, even when there is nothing, there is always misery and pain and suffering.

So let's be blooming glad we don't have nothing

Answer 8

There is always something and never nothing.

Answer 9

Think about it. Anything that does not exist,and never has, is nothing.

Answer 10

Who said that?