Is "nothing" nothing until you think of it? And if so, does it then become "something"?

Answer 1

You can't think of 'nothing' because everything has an association with thought. If you try and think of nothing you will eventually think of something. We live in a visual culture where colors, symbols and memories are all linked to different associations we experience in life.

Answer 2

Take the second question first; it's about reality--real space-time.

What you think about something that really exists has nothing to do with whether it exists, in what for it exists, or much of anything else--except how realistic your assessment of it is when you try to act toward it.

Second, whenever you think, you must think about something; you are the product of an and an inhabitant of space-time; it's like thinking about numbers--zero is also an "integer', a definite amount of something, as much as 1, 2, of 12 million are; it just lacks content.

So, the answer to your fine question is easy:
Nothing does not exist.
It is not, period.
When you think of it, it becomes a thought, one whose content is "your recognition of nullity", in something else--or in your own brain.

It becomes nothing, nor does it change; it still doesn't exist.

Your thought, your evaluation of an amount of whatever it is you're measuring, whether it's the content of your thoughts or of something else in the real world as a subject has been manufactured by your brain. It now exists, as a thought.

But that doesn't mean you're right about there being nothing according to your thought--either in your thoughts or in whatever reality subject you're contemplating, reality remain what it is. As long as you're thinking, even about nothing--that's something, in your head not in the space-time universe outside of your head. But if you're thinking about something outside your head and its a nothing, you don't affect the reality universe--and there's either nothing or something out there, but its existence doesn't depend on your cognitive actions, causations, beliefs, rightness or wrongness.

Answer 3

In quantum physics what you are describing is called the “observer effect”. It is in fact a very important part of understanding the nature of reality.

Simply stated the observer effect says that you have an effect on reality simply by observing it. If you’re not familiar with this idea I strongly suggest you go look it up as it is really a fascinating idea. Back to your question…think of “nothing” as the number zero. Is zero something? That answer is subjective. It depends on your frame of perspective. In the broad sense yes zero is something it’s a number. But try to think of zero in the frame of a math problem.

0+0=0 mathematically speaking zero is truly nothing, you can add zero to zero into infinity and you still have nothing. Start with the number one add zero you still have one you have added nothing to it so yes there is actually such a thing as nothing.

Now consider that simply by thinking of zero you, the observer are in effect adding something to it...we’ll use "one" as an example. By thinking of zero you are making it something. Because you are observing zero, zero can no longer exist because by observing it you are adding one to it making it something.

So yes nothing is actually nothing until you observe it at which point it becomes something.

Answer 4

It will not become something by itself but if you think so, it will become. The irony is nothing is actually not nothing it is everything. Something can only be a part of it. A completion of all somethings are equivallent to "Nothing".

Answer 5

This is a great philosophical question... my STAR!!

We can not think of or imagine nothing.... when we are supposedly trying to visualise nothing, we get to empty space which is not nothing, it is something. Nothing means even space should not be there whether filled up or empty. We can understand nothing only as a concept such as opposite of existence... even then we need a reference point of something. Nothing can not occupy space or time, hence can not exist.... therefore it can never be something. When we are trying to think of nothing, what comes into being is our thought and not the 'nothing' we are trying to think of.

Answer 6

No. Nothing is still nothing. Remains nothing. It is nothing in the first place because YOU decide it is nothing. It cannot become a "something"

Answer 7

Just because I don't think of something doesn't mean that something is nothing. There is no way of knowing for sure, but someone else might be thinking of it, thus making it something.

Answer 8

Nothing is never nothing, otherwise you would not be asking.
There is always something, even when your not thinking about it.
Nothing is an empty space, Your not an empty space and neither is the place you are at now It is something and its somewhere. Have a nice something today.

Answer 9

Nothing exist until your eye's are made to see. nothing is that something you have not seen yet.

Answer 10

think back to basic algebra and the introduction of negative numbers...which are numbers that exist only in relationship to their positive counterparts...if i imagine an elephant in this room with me, i have created a negative elephant, the one that is not in this room..and very quickly i must imagine a negative man with a negative broom because i'm not cleaning up all that negative sh*t!