what exactly is nothingness.?

Question

scientist say that just before the big bang that all the matter in existance was smashed togeather in a tiny area the size of the point of a neddle. so what exactly was surrounding that matter. and if it is anything, how far does that nothingness expand?

Answer 1

It expands right into somethingness. =)
Nothingness is an exaggeration of time and distance that takes up no space and can not be calculated.
Scientists don't use that word for that very reason. Nothingness is a nothing word so only god-loving people tend to use it..
and emo kids who pretend they are god haters who say their life is a black abyss and that they are filled with said "nothingness" in which case they are filled with matter that weighs a lot on their "nothingness" of a soul.

Answer 2

Francis Schaeffer, a philosopher and theologian, came up with an explanation of nothingness. He was frustrated by the fact that many people try to explain that origin of the universe by saying they are starting with nothing, and then really introducing something, like matter, or energy, or time, or space.

So he devised a definition of what he called "NOTHING nothing".

First, take a completely blank blackboard, on which nothing had ever been written. Then take a fresh piece of chalk which has never before been used. Draw a circle on that blackboard. What is inside the circle represents everything that exists.

NOW, erase the circle!

THEN, throw away the blackboard!

That is what he meant by NOTHING-nothing.

Saying that there was another universe before ours is only pushing the question back further, somewhere else. Saying that there is a 'brane' in another dimension, is not an answer to this question.

Either something has always existed, or everything had a beginning. How can you ever get something from NOTHING-nothing...?

Francis Schaeffer chose to believe that God always existed and made everything. So do I.

You can search on Francis Schaeffer to learn more about his life and way of thinking. His books are deep, but profound, and I find them very valuable. I think you will enjoy them, and will find answers of a type you can never find here. Good luck!

Answer 3

The question has a contradiction. The word "is" implies existence. When you ask "what IS nothingness," you're asking someone to demonstrate to you the existence of non-existence, and that's impossible nonsense.

Nothingness has no properties. Having no properties, nothingness can't become a concept. Whatever you imagine nothingness TO BE, it's wrong.

Existence exists only because non-existence, by tautology, does not exist. That doesn't say anything about what form existence will take, but it does explain why "something rather than nothing."

With existence, form becomes a Monte Carlo game of many trials, of which a very few result in universes, in a few of which living things evolve to marvel at how unlikely their existence was... until they consider the weak anthropic principle.

Answer 4

I was going to say something about how far does the area between your ears expand but, no, I think I'll try to answer it somewhat seriously. Nothingness is a term that it hard to quantify. By it's very meaning it's the definition of emptiness. By the same token how does one define fullness and what is nothing and what is full is all relative to what one is referring to. All of these things are somewhat theoretical and theories like the "big bang" have troubled and been debated by the best minds among us for generations.

Answer 5

Nothingness does not exist in the physical universe.
why? because time is not linear. Time is cyclical. Matter was never created. Matter/Energy have always existed. The law of conservation of matter/energy states that "matter/energy cannot be created nor destroyed, they only transform."

In a cyclical view of time, everything has always existed, but transformed into some other arrangement of atoms... things transform. But you cannot create matter, neither destroy it. Thus, it is eternal. It has been there all along.

Answer 6

Nothingness is less than nothing - no air, no time, no space, no dark, no light, no water, etc.

You can't say it is just nothing, because that very nothing is actually something.

I don't know how far the nothingness expands, since it is less than nothing, it would not seem possible, since it would have to actually be something for it to expand.

Answer 7

The nothingness would have taken up all the space not currently occupied by the needle-sized matter.

Answer 8

Nothing is the lack or absence of anything (including empty area or a vacuum). Colloquially, however, the term is often used to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.

Answer 9

The contents of Al Gore's head

Answer 10

Nothingness is the inside of your skull.