Can you imagine nothing? We all know before the big bang or whatever you believe, there was nothing, right. Can you imagine nothing, its not white or black those are colors thats something. Think about it, its pretty crazy dont you think.
2006-07-22 15:54:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The question is interesting if you are talking about existence of universe since you referred to Big Bang theory. Big Bang is one such assumption of humans that universe is constantly increasing in size like a balloon in which air is being filled and two locations on this ballow are moving far apart gradually. .
As far as "nothing" is concerned, nothing is something which has no mass and does not occupy space. However, universe is full of matter and matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Its just like ENERGY which changes forms from one to other.
2006-07-22 16:01:02 · answer #1 · answered by fuse 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
True darkness would be the absence of light which would be perceived as black. That being said, I don't think you can imagine nothing. By thinking about something, even nothing, you are defining it thus giving it some substance even if you just apply the label of nothing to it. Wait what did I say, this is like all the crazy mental back flips you have to do to follow a movie that travels back in time. As Austin Powers says, "Oh wait, I've gone cross-eyed."
2006-07-22 23:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it are not crazy but it is a phase where we want to see things in different way. I hope you have seen a painter painting in black and white and that look perfect and you think it looks better without colors.
Think about the blind person who can see nothing but black and how are you going to explain this person different colours.
Yes, it started from nothing and that is a fact we can deny it. I have friend and he always has a plane white paper in front of him with a black dot in center. I asked him so many times to explain me what it means. It was too hard for him to explain but he asked me to sit in front of this paper with a black dot in center. I did so and things started unfolded, the first things which strikes my mind was a single sperm which you can’t even see fertilize egg (which is again invisible) and a life is formed. Did you ever think about it?
Others things which came to my mind was God, universe, solar system, earth and so many other things which were around my life.
Yes, we can’t imagine life black and white but if you do sometimes you will understand and cherish the colored life what you have now.
Sit down doing nothing, eyes closed and concentrate on nothing. Don’t listen to any thing but to your inner self and see how good you feel.
Sometimes this “NOTHING” and “BLACK & WHITE” make you understand everything.
2006-07-23 00:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by Nick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm able to imagine nothing on a visual basis but doubt I could imagine total nothingness with no sensations or memories. Some schools of meditation teach the student to still the mind until no thoughts enter. That's probably as close as most people can get...and that isn't an easy feat.
2006-07-22 23:10:15 · answer #4 · answered by CosmicKiss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Can you imagine nothing?"
No, I can't.
"We all know before the big bang or whatever you believe, there was nothing, right."
No, we don't. From the fact that there is something (be it only my imagination) we must infer that there has always been, and will always be, something.
EDIT:
Oh, and to Circledcross: one cannot imagine limitless light, as one cannot imagine anything limitless: to imagine is to limit.
2006-07-22 23:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by sauwelios@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, one cannot imagine nothing. If you're not imagining anything, you're not imagining, so that's not the case. If you imagine a void, you're imagining a void, which can be confused with nothingness. We can imagine the concept that there was nothing, but we cannot imagine the nothingness without in turn imagining something (even if that something is a void).
2006-07-23 00:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even to call it "nothing" is already to define it as something. Your question assumes that there's something to imagine. But nothing isn't something. It's nothing. So even if we could imagine *absolutely anything*, we still couldn't imagine nothing, because nothing isn't anything.
I have a headache.
2006-07-24 12:23:22 · answer #7 · answered by Keither 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our minds are too small to conceptualize this idea. We would go crazy. Besides there was something before us. Many theologians have discussed it the beginning of Genesis where after line 3 there is a question as to whether life exsisted before our own.
2006-07-22 23:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
one could imagine the world without something. now take that idea to the limit, and thats nothing.
2006-07-22 23:10:52 · answer #9 · answered by OrtegaFollower 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagining nothing is imagining something.
2006-07-22 23:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by kazejin_91423 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋