Very Interesting Question. If there was no universe, then there'd be nothing. But yet that's something?

Question

Imagine no universe in your mind. Imagine Nothing. You just see black space right. That is something isn't it? So I'm proposing that nothing is something! And there's another word for absolutely nothing how about using "Na-nothing?" How could there be Na-nothing? It it impossible to have Na-nothing? Because nothing is something. This may be too hard for a human mind to grasp.

I had these new thoughts. In a state of Na-nothing. There could be no time, not color, light, life, anything. So maybe the reason we can't grasp it is because that's all we know. And what is the universe expanding into. Na-nothing, or nothing(which is something).

Answer 1

Yes, the creation of this universe is a difficult process to comprehend. I've tried to express to others the concept that there was apparently less than nothing before the Big Bang - not just no mass or energy, but no time or space as well. Na-nothing might be a good word for it. But like particles that travel backwards in time or are in 2 places at the same time, or even just particles that are not particles but not waves either, some things you just have to accept, whether or not the concept is mentally visible or even intuitively plausible.

Answer 2

If the Universe did not exist yet. There would be a white hole where it will be located in the future.
In that white hole a substance would have to be inserted wich would be a volume of no mass but neverthe less a substance.
Lets call it aether.
So the White hole will not contain anything which is mass, abolutely nothing of mass.
Even though there is no mass does not mean that here is nothing in the White hole.
So the BiG Bang theory if true would have to come out of the White hole.
When the Bible mentions Creation of mass structure out of nothing it implies implied that the nothing was a space substance which was created.
The Chinese sages had an interesting postulate ; Which said ;That the "Chi"is the basis for all material existance in the Universe.The Chi represent the Nothing that Bible refered to,was actually the Substance of Space.
This is what Newton refused to explain because as you say its a difficult concept for Humans to grasp.
Relativity theory, Never really Expained it Except with an imaginary mathematical geometry called manifold,And the curvature of this manifold.

Answer 3

I have mentioned this a couple of times because it is a thought-provoking concept and you are obviously wrestling with it. You're right, it has to be a special kind of nothing. Yes, black space is something. Non-Universe is not an infinite expanse of utter void. It is not an infinite period with no time. There is no space. No time. Nothing.
It's a difficult concept to grasp because it is so alien to our world. I have locked on it for a couple of seconds from time to time and it is a disturbing feeling. A feeling is all it can be in human perception because there's nothing to picture and nothing to compare it to.

Answer 4

you know, saying that nothing is something, is just like saying time exists and yet doesn't.
how do we define time? clocks ticking? days slipping into nights and nights into days? days into years? is that our proof of time? movement of the sun, stars, earth ? we're also moving around in time, going, doing, seeing, working, studying, eating, sleeping. so, imagine if time were to stop....just suddenly stop. so, everyone stops doing what they're doing and the whole world, galaxy and universe freezes.
then, suddenly everything starts again. you could say that time froze in that gap; there was no time and so nothing progressed. but then again.....the gap between the stopping of time and then the starting of time again can be measured.....in what? in time of course!
so, i guess you could say that time is something, and then again, its nothing.....but if you say that nothing is something, then time is definitely something.
this may not really answer your question...i just thought this was quite similar to what you were thinking...

Answer 5

Nothing is not the same as something. How did you grasp it.