is there such a thing as nothing ?

Question

i think everything is something , even air is something , the space between the world and the moon and galaxies is dark matter which is something too , outside the expansion of the universe is light matter which is something too , so what is nothing and why is there such a word if everything is something ?

Answer 1

Nothing is actually something, it is a way to express that something is not visible to the human eye.

Plus we need the word to use the following:
The doctor injected my lip with anesthetics, my lips feel nothing.
There is nothing for us to eat in the fridge

And this Sinead O'Connor's song would totally be ruined if it had to be reworded: Something Compares...Something Compares, to you.

Answer 2

No, and
Yes, air is something,
No "dark matter" but space particles.
Dark matter is something else:
In astrophysics, dark matter is matter that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation (such as light, X-rays and so on) to be detected directly, but whose presence may be inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter.

Their are larger gaps in space, but still space, even empty having three-dimensions is something.

But there are possibly non-dimensional universes that don't exist??? Those are nothing.

Also before the big band if everything was a single particle cluster, then outside of that was nothing, perhaps neither space nor time. Perfect NOTHING!!!

Outside of our universe, imagine it's a bubble, there could be nothing, maybe not even other universes.

My friend liked to say:Nothing doesn't exist.
Which is true, if it existed it would be something.

But obivously there is both the human concept and the possibility of great unregions(no space) of nothings

Answer 3

Hmm.... In Plato's day it was believed the universe was composed of four 'elements' - earth, air, fire and water. When these proved inadequate for all uses a fifth 'element' - the 'quinta essentia' (quintessence) was invented.

Nowadays we don't tend to use the concept of quintessence. Similarly in physics, perhaps 'nothing' has had it's day. But in mathematics, it still has it's uses.

And while it has colloquial or 'common' use, the term will persist.

"What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."

"I like that too," said Christopher Robin, "but what I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say 'Oh, nothing,' and then you go and do it."

"Oh, I see," said Pooh.

"This is a nothing sort of thing that we're doing now."

"Oh, I see," said Pooh again.

"It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

"Oh!" said Pooh.

Answer 4

I might call a vacuum nothing. But thats cause I Don't know anything about science or physics.

Also, id say that when you reach the end of the universe there is 'nothing', and before the big bang there was 'nothing'.

Also, sometimes when I think a child is being naughty, he will reassure me that he was in actual fact 'doing nothing'.

Answer 5

Yes there is such a thing as nothing. This question is a great example of it.

Coach

Answer 6

I think its because sometimes something can be considered to not matter so they use the word nothing. just like when u ask someone whats on tv and they say..."nothing". There are many things on TV but to them it just isnt that something they want to see. The word nothing can be used in this case though.. "What did you have to eat?" , reply " Nothing!" There the word nothing is being used properly! : ) i feel smarter

Answer 7

Ahem!!
Well, NOTHING, if you really look at it in perspective, is a term extremely relative in nature, used only to describe either a slice in time, or the state of (no)things at a moment in time.

If you asked the stone man, "What lays beyond the atlantic?", he would probably reply "Nothing", but then later we discovered that the nothing is, in fact, something

If my wife asks me "What is bothering you?" I say, "Nothing, whereas the truth is that there is many-a-thing there

Then she asks me "What will you eat, honey?" I say "nothing". A few minutes of glares and it changes to "Anything you serve, honey"

So, anything and everything that is projected as nothing is a thing that has or is something, and it may take something to take the answer from "Nothing" to "Something" to, probably, "Everything". That's the thing about this thingie thing called nothing

Answer 8

Well, everything you say depends on what you think is something. What are the qulifications for anything to be something. If it is having a mass, then just look at light. Photons have no mass but carry energy. Or look at exotic matter which is supposed to have a negative mass.

Answer 9

Nothing can only be defined by placing it in a certain category for comparison. According to generalities, everything can be measured thus is not "nothing." However, when put in a specific context, there CAN be nothing....evidenced by what my mother used to accuse me of all the time as a child...."What did you do to your brother?" "ummmm....nothing."

Answer 10

There's plenty of people in the world with nothing to eat. Try telling them it's not nothing.