is there really no such thing as absolute nothingness?

Question

does even a vacuum have energy?
do you realise how difficult it is to frame a question about nothing in english?

Answer 1

It appears that nature abhors a vacuum.

Answer 2

It's a bit like black being an absence of colour, isn't it? Nothingness, like everything else, needs margins, ends, borders .... and if there weren't these constraints, nothingness would either totally envelop or simply not exist. It's simply beyond our comprehension I suspect ..... life would never have existed if nothingness preceded it. Even a chaotic, disorganised state exists somewhere. You use the words 'vacuum' and 'frame' ..... everything has to exist within or around something else for us to recognise it ..... so where would nothingness start and finish .... perhaps the end of the universe has nothingness .....
A cup can have nothing in it .... but that nothing is merely an absence of something. So perhaps nothingness is exactly that, the total lack of something. IT must fall in line with concepts such as 'nowhere' ... 'nobody' ..... 'noway' ..... i.e. the total lack of something tangible.

What a great question for Sunday afternoon!

Answer 3

Since absolute nothingness has, by definition, no separate existence from actual matter, there can be no such thing.

The requirement would be a total vacuum; how would it be bordered? How would it be maintained when no barrier is absolutely non-porous?

No, a true vacuum does not have energy of its own because 1) there is nothing present to carry the energy / 2) it cannot exist (as we have already seen).

And yes, framing a 'nothing-related' question is difficult; perhaps because a true state of nothing is impossible to achieve.

Answer 4

The answer is no.
Absolute nothingness should have no light, no atoms, no radioactive decay, no heat. A complete vacuum and nothing in it at all.
Out in the deepest space of the universe the temperature is 3 degrees absolute. This is left over energy of the big bang. In a void of absolute nothingness the temperature is zero degrees absolute.
Because of this energy driving the temperature up to three degrees, then it is not an absolute nothingness.
Because it is all around the universe, then in practice you can not attain this absolute void.
Even in the best refrigeration units, they got to several thousands of a degree above absolute zero, they never got to absolute zero. Therefore there is no complete void.

Answer 5

This is a question that pushes on the known boundaries of Physics and the universe itself.

From studying the universe and measuring how much matter there is in it the universe should be expanding at a slower rate.

However, from measuring the speed at which it is expanding it is actually getting faster! From this shock of science, the idea of dark matter came around to explain it. But even now, from our best estimates at the amount of dark matter there is, there is still not enough energy.

So, to solve this problem there was an idea that nothingness had a repulsive force that is so small it only has an effect at huge sizes. This arguement is highly debated and the theory has only come around in the last few years so it has not been properly explored, so to answer your question properly, we do not know for sure.

Answer 6

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle will be familiar to you.

Et=h

E is energy
t is time
h is the Plank Constant, 6.6x10^-34Js

The universe can 'borrow' energy [E] for short periods of time [t] as long as the two obey Et<=h

Because E=mc^2, this means small particles can be made which interact with stuff nearby. The limit on the distance of this interaction is [ct], where c is the speed of light.

A low energy borrowing can last for longer and therefore can influence stuff further away. High energy stuff can only effect stuff really nearby.

The result of this is that a vacuum bristles with 'virtual' particles. Their effect is low but two parallel plates will slowly come together due to this. Between the plates, certain wavelengths are prohibited due to destructive interference. This is not true outside the plates. With more virtual particles hitting outside than in, the plates come together.

This is is why we say a vacuum has energy.

Hope you understand.

Answer 7

A perfect vacuum cannot be attained..some energy remains.
Absolute nothingness cannot exist , even in outer space there are some atoms and molecules of gases.

Answer 8

the vacume of space has all sorts of things inside of it. firstly there is aproximatly 1 hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter os empty space, then there is the cosmic backround radiation which is what causes the white noise on your tv and radio, then there are WIMPS which are weakly interacting massive particles they are one of the suspects for dark matter, then there are neutrinos which are produced by the sun and are very weakly interacting particles which are created as a by product of fission and fusion. the best vacume of nothing can be created in a lab which has less atoms in it than real space.

Answer 9

U can if u suck out all entropy within the system even temporarily. So if we could try investigating the area near an isolated black hole, just a suggestion. However entropy cannot be permanently made to zero.

Answer 10

specific, I agree. Badly phrased, yet I do consider what you're saying. If there grew to become into ever a time while there grew to become into no longer something, there may be no longer something in the present day. the vast Bang had to have a generally taking place reason or it does no longer have long previous BANG. no count how a techniques back you pass, something had to initiate the ball rolling down the hill and that something had to be led to or be a led to in and of itself. there grew to become into "time" before the vast bang. the reason i understand that's that it does no longer have banged had their been NO TIME before it. think of lighting fixtures a fuse able the place there's no time, so no stream. you ought to no longer easy it.... the vast bang, what led to it to pass bang? Instability? if so, then instability desires a time horizon. in order that as that all and sundry of you realize. no longer something is meaningless. to appreciate that's to appreciate something, which isn't no longer something. no longer something can't exist during this international / universe / length. If we ought to pass to a international that contained no longer something, we could no longer pass to it, or see it, or know it, or something.