Is nothing the most important something in the universe?

Question

Looking as far as we can into space we see nothing. When we look at the very small we see it surounded by nothing. So if every thing is made mostly nothing isn't it a very important something?

Answer 1

Well, kinda sorta. I think what you mean to say is that space is the most important something. But space is not nothing, it has properties. It's hard to think of it as something, though, because we can't imagine it not being there.

Answer 2

Good question! I think it may indeed be the most important something in the universe. That "nothing", in terms of space itself, is what cosmologists call the Fabric of Space-Time. Our universe is expanding, as most scientists agree, not because stars and galaxies are moving through space away from each other, but because Space itself is expanding! Think of a balloon with pennies pasted on its surface. As the balloon expands, the pennies aren't moving across the surface of the balloon - it's the rubber of the balloon itself, the fabric of spacetime, that's expanding and causing things to get farther away from each other.

Also, this "nothing", or empty space, is theorized to actually be filled with quantum fluctuations that average out to have an energy density of zero. Some fluctuations result in energy densities greater than zero, others less than zero, but the average being zero.

Empty space, this "nothing", is one of the most fascinatnig features of study in astrophysics and cosmology today! For a great read on the subject of "nothing" try out The Fabric Of The Cosmos by Brian Greene. It takes some mental gymnastics, but it'.. blow your mind how Not Simple nothing really is.

Answer 3

Astronomy is sometimes presented as successfully having answered the most basic questions about the universe. One popular book attempts to explain the complete evolution of the universe to within 10-43 seconds of its origin (Hawking, 1996). This number is called the Planck time, when some cosmologists think the present laws of physics originated. In truth, of course, many fundamental questions remain. We actually know very little about our neigh- boring planets, and much less about the deep space beyond. Consider just a few of the mysteries in modern astronomy:

Origin of the moon
Star and galaxy formation .Source of cosmic rays
Nature of quasars and their distances .Absence of evolved life elsewhere
Dark matter
The last entry is explored in this article. Dark matter is so called because it emits no detectable radiation. In our current understanding of astronomy and physics, dark matter must comprise the majority of mass in the universe, between 90-99 percent. Yet it has never been detected with certainty, if it indeed exists. Carl Sagan described it as dark, quintessential, deeply mysterious stuff wholly unknown on earth (Sagan, 1994, p. 399). Astronomers therefore have no idea of the composition of the bulk of the entire universe. So much for a fundamental understanding of the physical universe! Dark matter is an apt topic for review and for a creationist evaluation. There is a large number of dark matter discussions and references currently available on the internet.

Answer 4

Some think of the vacuum of space as a nothing something. It ls important because it gives all the other somethings a space to exist in.

Answer 5

Certainly. That nothing is a very important something.
Bcoz if that nothing wasnt there, everything else would be something and there wouldnt have been a bigbang. Which means there wldnt have been a atmosphere or a life and I wouldnt have scored 2points agnst this question which is all about nothing.

Answer 6

Ofcourse nothing is very important. But seeing nothing can be absence of proof. And absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Take the case of vaccum. Its said that there is nothing in vaccum
But there is no evidence that there is nothing. There were some proposes by scientists like the ETHER eventhough it was discarded on the basis of proofs. But the one who discarded did not give the surety that there is nothing.

Answer 7

For us, the most important something in the universe is our lovely blue planet, Earth.

Answer 8

We have proved in Mathematics by assigning Zero to nothing. Zero is something without which there is no mathematics.
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Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

Yeah.