Why do scientists have such a hard time defining nothing?

Question

Nothing is the absence of something. Nothing cannot be reproduced in an already existing universe.

Answer 1

I think it is because they don't know nothing. And even if they did in fact know nothing, then they still couldn't describe it, because of course, they know nothing. Does this help?

Answer 2

Our universe comprised mostly of nothing. You and everything else in existence are mostly nothing. The distance between a nucleus and its orbiting electron is a very large space of nothing compared to the atomic parts. If a nucleus was the size of a copper BB used in air guns (1.8mm in diameter), its first electrons would be almost a half mile away. Electrons, by the way, are not little round things circling a nucleus. They are more like a gas of energy spinning around and enclosing the nucleus. If all of the nothing between nuclei and electrons was removed from your body, you would not be visible to the naked eye. The sun would be the size of that BB.

You may have heard that you are 90% water but the truth is that you are 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% nothing, roughly, and a large portion of the remaining physical part is just energy. Try imagining the real truth the next time you look at someone which is, most of what you are looking at and touching, almost doesn't exist at all.

Scientist do have trouble plugging nothing into their formulas or considering the vacuum because 0*1=0 and 1/0=infinity (the basic equation symbolizing the creation of the universe) and 0/1 doesn't have and answer (but if you think about it in universal terms, 1/0 and 0/1 would create the same thing and 0 was probably there first) and 0/0=1 does not somehow make any sense except mathematically and can't be done in reality. The laws of physics only apply to something. They don't apply to nothing.

This all makes up the reason why no one has figured out how to get something from nothing rather than nothing from something.

Answer 3

Scientists have a hard time finding cures for the common cold and cancer. Philosophers have a hard time defining nothing. I just have a hard time understanding all your weird questions. Can't you ask something like "Who do you think will get voted off of Dancing with the Stars tonight?" :o)

Answer 4

because if you define nothing, nothing has a definition which is something having to do with nothing. by the way there is no such thing as nothing... really... think about this... in your mind, envision nothing. (don't read anymore until you do that)...


Are you envisioning nothing?(scroll)






No you aren't... what color is the nothing you're thinking of? What shape is holding the nothing you're imagining? see? it's impossible... have fun mulling that over...

Answer 5

I once read that space is nothing but the relative distances between objects. Without objects, it is nothing. Our universe is literally creating space as it expands.

Consider a box with absolutely nothing in it. It is nothing - now add a couple of marbles - now we have changed nothing into a very tangible distance between these marbles - add a third marble and move the box around - we now have both relative velocities and distances between these objects. Starting to sound familiar?

Answer 6

sounds like you've already figured it out. "Nothing cannot be reproduced in an already existing universe." So why bother.

Answer 7

Well, I once talked to nobody because nobody was there. That means nothing does exist which is something.

Answer 8

Because they always dream about defining something rather than nothing.

Answer 9

there is really no such thing as nothing... nothing is just a word...

Answer 10

The question would then be, why would it be "nothing" instead of "something"?