2006-08-25 13:25:44 · 8 answers · asked by KC 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
The absence of something.
A vacuum is a real nothing.
2006-08-25 13:30:10 · answer #1 · answered by Simple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a concept for most people the opposite of "something". Or the absence of stuff, a vacuum. Robert E expressed that nice...above
So...even when you take everything away - there is still space (the place where the "something" was before).
And there is time...
or not?
That's a question Kant (famous philosopher, a while ago) was wondering about....is there time if there is nothing were time is passing on?
Is time "something"? And space?
So - with all that the only conclusion is that "nothing" can not be imagined or understood by us, people with a 3D (space) or 4D (space and time) brain and existence. It's beyond our imagination and especially beyond words. Nor - can it be experienced. Language is insufficient. Mathematicians have better ways to express.
2006-08-25 20:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by spaceskating_girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is something the human mind can not comprehend even if we try. We have yet to find anything that is nothing.
Quantum physics has revealed a stunning truth about “nothing”: even the emptiest vacuum is filled with elementary particles, continually created and destroyed. Particles appear and disappear, flying apart and coming together, in an intricate quantum dance
On a philosophical level this question had keep people busy for centuries, so keep pondering it
2006-08-25 20:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by atlantisflicka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is what you have when you don't have anything else.
Hard to imagine, since our brains work by comparisons between things. Even the vacuum of space is considered now to have some form of energy filling it, so nothing is even less than that. We have a symbol for it: the zero. The zero isn't a number in that sense, it is a symbol of the absense of numbers which would represent quantities. That's why you can't divide by zero; because there isn't really anything there to divide with.
2006-08-25 20:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by auntiegrav 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't know what nothing is because we've never experienced it. We would not survive in an environment of nothingness because we need things to live. Without a lack of things, there would be no life.
2006-08-25 20:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of no interest, value, or consequence --like zero
If someone means nothing to you then if they died it wouldn't affect you. But then again what if you got nothing for working, then that would mean something. It's one of those things that are menat to make your mind go in circles. Good luck
2006-08-25 20:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is zip zero nada
2006-08-25 20:31:06 · answer #7 · answered by (((((K!NG))))) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What this question means. :)
2006-08-25 20:34:03 · answer #8 · answered by nolongeravailableatY!Answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋