Heres one for ya...?

Question

If the outer, ...outer space is said to be nothing, then what really is 'nothingness'?

Answer 1

It is the force that surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the universe together.

Answer 2

It is said that the universe is expanding from a point source, what many call the Big Bang. All matter that is in the universe today, came from that one point that was infinitesimal. Seems to be a good bit of evidence confirming the Big Bang theory. However, one thing there must be before matter can exist is a 3 dimensional space(maybe more dimensions are folded up than the 3 we seem to know presently). So that is what is expanding & all matter is going for the hayride of its life on the 3 dimensional space unraveling. You see, outer space is actually something, even if it had no matter in it. What truly is nothing is if the 3 dimensional unfurling space turned around & furled up till there was no 3 dimensional space. Wow!!!

Answer 3

Well now if we have to do this, I guess we might as well try to do our best.

Try this:

Take a really clean plastic pepsi bottle; one of those 3 liter bottles you see in the store all the time. Empty it completely of everything. Peel off all the labels. Wash it inside and out really good. Dry it off so there is no moisture left at all in the bottle.

Screw on the lid - almost, but not quite, all the way on.

Now, carefully sit on the plastic bottle and squish out all the air that you can possibly squish out. Screw the lid on tight now. And, place the bottle in your freezer for 7 hours.

What you have left in the bottle is 10,000 times more than what is out in outer space, and much, much, much hotter.

That is the closest example I can give you of outer space without some kind of vacuum pump and super refrigerating equipment.

There is nothing there.
There is no heat there because there is nothing to retain the heat, or anything for solar rays to heat up.
Just a lot of "nothing."

Answer 4

I understand nothingness as the term used to describe the absence of any kind of matter. However it is untrue that outer space is nothing, since there is matter spreaded all over the universe.

Answer 5

there is no such thing as nothing. " if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears the sound, would it be true to say that it did not happen? nothingness is mans definition of matter that is so minut, so sparce, so spead out that it is bearly, if at all, detectable. in order to have nothing,you must first have something to support or corralate to the nothingness. just by speaking the word "nothing" you give support to the concept of nothing and there by giving nothingness substance thus giving it exsistance, were there is exsistance there must also be substance,even if that substance is only an ideal or thought. so you see, as long as we think of a "nothingness" there can be no nothingness

Answer 6

there's nothing outside the universe because the universe is infinite. therefore, outside outer space is more outer space, cos there's no edge to it. Therefore, nothingness is actually everything. everything is nothing. and we might as well all just go down the pub.

Answer 7

When nothing of nothing of nothing exists. Which means scientists are saying some things in outer space are crappy and futile. Well it can kill us, teach us somtin or just scare us.

Answer 8

Had a couple of glasses wine but I think nothing is nothingness.

Answer 9

A Vast Expansive Infinite Vacuum on the coat tails of light and matter from a MASSIVE EXPLOSION roughly 13.7 billion years ago.

Answer 10

1 Who says outerspace is nothing?
2. Matter can neither be destroyed nor created
3. So nothing is something it is just that there is nothing there

Answer 11

Just that - nothing. It is difficult for us to think in terms of any absolute, time, space, temperature, colour, touch, taste etc....