Nothingness...?

Question

When I try to imagine absolute nothingness I imagine it like the space we see except without the stars and the planets - huge, empty, silent 'space' of darkness. Is it technically wrong to think of nothingness as being "dark"? I guess what I'm trying to ask is would nothingness be black in colour or does the blackness indicate there is something so it cannot be nothingness?

Answer 1

Blackness means that there is nothing. Light has different wavelengths; different ones for different colours. If something is white, then it is emitting all of them. If you are recieving no wavelengths from an area, you will percieve that area as black.

So blackness means "I can't see anything here", so it is nothingness (although a black object will reflect some light, just not much. The black you see in space is actual nothingness).

When you percieve nothingness as black, you are very right- that's what your eyes would register. They see black because black means "nothing to report". It's very literally "silence" for light.

Answer 2

I think we humans imagine nothingness as blackness because that's something we can see, and it's what we see every time we close our eyes. I honestly don't think nothingness is something we puny-brained mammals can comprehend. Nothingness wouldn't be light or dark. There would be nothing.
Interesting question, though!

Answer 3

There may be two types of nothing.
There is the nothing before an incident and the nothing after it.
The nothing before an incident must have some type of potential to produce the incident.
When the incident comes to an end,never to occur again,it enters a state of eternal nothing,with no potential.
Nothing is the absence of anything including space.

Answer 4

Just my thoughts here. If you create a vacuum in a clear container in a lab and look through that container you will see whatever is on the other side. Therefor I vote for true nothingness to be translucent.

Answer 5

"Color" is an attribute we assign to matter depending on what wavelength of visible light is absorbs verses what it reflects. If there is no matter, there can be no "color".

The absence of all color is perceived by our eyes as black.

There is no such thing as nothingness. The blackness we perceive in space is a result of the limitations of our sensory equipment (our eyes).

Answer 6

"would nothingness be black in colour" - No. If "it is" nothingness, then "it has" no attributes, thus no color.

"does the blackness indicate there is something so it cannot be nothingness". Yes.

Answer 7

What kind of colors did you see before you were born? What kind of color are you seeing behind your head right now? That's the color of nothingness.

Answer 8

I suppose it goes against the nature of our mind to comprehend 'nothing'. Much like it is impossible for the average person to contemplate space. Where does it end?The fact that you are challenging yourself to imagine 'nothing' says something about your insight.

Answer 9

If there is nothing to generate light the result would black.

Answer 10

a attractiveness or image for something or no longer something would not substitute its properties a concept is merely assistance, it dosnt make no longer something something its merely no longer something has a label and concept now so that is communicated, we havnt made no longer something into something or a concept, we made the belief of no longer something xD