What is nothing?

Answer 1

Let's say you walk into a room and there is "nothing in it" -- no objects of any kind, no furniture and no people. It's just four walls, a ceiling and a floor.

Even though we think of the room as empty, what this room contains is air. Floating around the room are an unbelievable number of atoms and molecules. The air in the room contains nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and all sorts of other chemicals. But we cannot see all these atoms because they are transparent. So we think of the room as full of nothing, even though it is full of atoms.

To get to a real form of "nothing", we need to go into outer space. Imagine that you go to the farthest, emptiest corner of the universe. This is as close to nothing as we are ever going to get. What we are looking for is a section of space that contains zero atoms. No atoms at all -- it is a perfect vacuum. That is the best approximation of "nothing" that we have in our universe today.

"What color is nothing?"

What we think of as "color" comes from light that hits our eyes. Small units of light, called photons, have to leave the object we are looking at in order for our eyes to see a color. Photons can either be produced by something, like a light bulb, or they can bounce off of something and get reflected into our eyes. Those photons are what our eyes "see."

Since "nothing" contains zero atoms, there is nothing in "nothing" that can produce photons, or reflect them - so there are zero photons. Our eyes see zero photons as black. So the color of "nothing" is black.

But here's a deeper question: Is a section of space that contains zero atoms really "nothing"?

Not really. Space, even if there are no atoms in it, is "something." For example, photons can move through space even if the space contains zero atoms. So can gravity. So can radio waves. So can a magnet's field. And we can measure space -- a chunk of space has a length, a width and a height. And time elapses. In other words, empty space is a measurable framework that has the ability to transmit certain types of energy.

"True nothing" would be truly nothing -- no space. This is hard to get a grasp on, because we cannot imagine this kind of nothing. We have never seen it. It is, presumably, what existed before the universe existed. Apparently, at the creation of the universe, there was truly nothing. Space, with its ability to transmit different types of energy, was created when the universe was created. Then energy in this space condensed into matter -- the atoms that we find all around us today.

"True nothing" is that immeasurable, zero-energy, non-existent thing that did not exist before the universe, and all the space in it, came into existence.

Answer 2

Nothing? You're something. What is nothing is numerous abstracts that when those abstracts all come together into one fine picture is something of dimensional value, substance and color. What is nothing is when there is no oxygen. I'm sorry, but 'what is nothing?' is more than one thing as I've indicated. All in all, and getting to the point, what is nothing is when there is no way to live life, to wake up to the new day. Nothing is being down and out living out in the streets up against all those people with so much money, it makes me wonder, having a lot of money is really nothing in contrast to the feelings I get when I see and read about all those homeless people all across america. now that is something not nothing. I believe I've made my case. Now that is something and what is nothing? Corrupt politics until it becomes something and all those politicians make a miracle happen and start caring about the way they do things. Etc, etc. etc.

Answer 3

Substantially speaking, it is the Bush's head content.

Nonetheless, philosophically speaking, it has a lot of problems to define. It can be said as the opposite of "all" or "everthing". It can only be said as being the absence of something where it was supposed to be, to exist. It can be said as being a human concept which does not exist in the reality but only on our mental activities. It can be said as a proof of the human low capacity of thinking (our limitations etc.). It can be said as a non-existing entity. As well, it can be said as being the idea of that thing you had in mind when you formulate such question. When you ask for something, you necessarily have a certain notion of its thing and possible answers. Then nothing's notion you certainly do have. Work with it and enlarge it.

So. As Aristotle said once, the being can be said via different ways. And the correct response to your question will depend of which way you'll prefer and it depends on your previouls knowledge of the stuff, as well as the language imployed by the answerer.

Therefore, the best answer, absolutely speaking, for such a question is suspended until you decide those things.

Bye!

Ah, nothing, etimologically speaking, is the negation of thing: "no thing".

That is it!

a virtual kiss,



ie - B r a z i l

Answer 4

Nobody likes nothing, and nothing doesn't like to be exist as well.
Just like Stanley Donwood said...
"NOBODY LIKES NOTHING I CERTAINLY WISH WITH ALL OF MY HEART THAT IT DID NOT EXIST
BUT WISHING IS NOT ENOUGH WE LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD WHERE NOTHING DOES EXIST WE CANNOT JUST DISINVENT IT

NOTHING IS NOT COMPREHENSIBLE NEITHER YOU NOR I HAVE ANY IDEA JUST WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

IT IS HARD TO KNOW IF NOTHING IS ACTUALLY NOTHING AND THUS DIFFICULT TO KNOW IF A POLICY OF DOING NOTHING IS SUCCESFUL

NOTHING HOWEVER EFFECTIVE IT MAY HAVE PROVED UP TO THE PRESENT CAN HARDLY CONTINUE TO DO SO INDEFINITELY

IF I HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE CONTINUED POSSIBILITY OF NOTHING HAPPENING AND OF DOING NOTHING I WOULD UNQUESTIONABLY CHOOSE THE LATER OR THE FORMER"

Answer 5

as Americans we well never fully understand what is noting .i do not believe nothing exit even when you describe nothing you are saying it is lacking or have something there for i do not think nothing exist

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Even nothing is something.

Answer 8

Nothing is no thing!

Answer 9

The brain mass of my ex husband

Answer 10

something that has nothing in it