Why is there not just nothing?

Question

Wouldn't that be easier and simpler? (I am aware that we lack a valdi metric for easy and simple)

Answer 1

But precisely there is just nothing. When you truly look at reality
and understand that in it's smallest confines of materialism the
stark reality is that there is nothing there. The only thing that can be known is that there is predictable mathematical certainty that
something is but no minute physics to support the physical fact.
That is why we often turn to the spiritual card to help us make sense of the whole Alice in wonderland syndrome that we find our selves in. "I think therefore I am", but am what?

Answer 2

The idea is good. The put into practical use is bad. We can generate extreme vacuums. In theory, nothing or almost nothing is there. Yet there is energy. We don't know how to evacuate both energy and matter from a given area. Let's say the we do someday. Then we have to figure out how to also evacuate the forces. You know that gravity and magnetic fields and possibly electric fields will still be there. We can sort of shield for magnetic and electric fields. Gravity is another issue. There is no shield. It can be minimized by distance. Good luck.

Answer 3

If the universe is infinite and over vast distances it contains a particle or two here and there, eventually these particles will come into contact. When they do, their combined mass causes a stronger than average gravitational field, making it more likely they'll combine with other particles. Over the eons, they'll eventually combine with enough particles to form dust clouds that will eventually form asteroids that will eventually coalesce to form planets and stars. The simplest result of an infite universe is what we see all around us!

Answer 4

It may be that it is the objects that give "nothing" its tangibility - the distance between the objects, the relative positions and velocities - these things all relate to the objects, and its "nothing" that gives these terms their meaning.
"Nothing" may well be what our universe is expanding into to. We can only "see" whatever objects emit or reflect information that we can detect - we cannot discern "nothing" even if it exists beyond our known universe - only when the objects enter "nothing" does it have any meaning.