Is Everything Nothing?

Question

I keep pondering this and i can get it outta my head. I thought one day that nothing is equal to everything. Because nothing is something, something is anything, and anything is everything, leading nothing to be equal to everything. This doesnt seem to make any sense to me however. What would you define as absolute nothing? What would you define a state of non-existance?

P.S- on the side, are my thoughts to deep for a 14 year old?

Answer 1

Everything is just that, everything. Nothing is a thing, but only one thing and being only one thing cannot be everything. Nothing can also be something, and something again is a thing, but not everything, for everything encompasses all things not one thing. Anything again results in the counting of only one thing, whereas everything would be the count of all things. So in conclusion, nothing is equal to everything, unless you take the total of somethings, nothings, and anythings. All of those things together may equal everything, if there is nothing left to add.

Not too deep for a 14 year old, our youth should sometimes learn to look at things from outside the box.

Answer 2

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 3

Dear WindGod,
You can't be only 14 years old!...I'm 44 years old and, not kidding, I was thinking the same thing last night. I swear on my life I thought what you wrote. You're quite the philosophical genius. I feel when I get to thinking like that too much, my brain gets overloaded and to relax my mind, I go out and play a game of soccer with a bunch of kids. Not kidding!

Answer 4

Because a sentient being begins to think, thus there is the begining of all things and everything.

Because a sentient being stops thinking, thus there is the ending of all things and everything.

Yet, the idea or perception of the 'sentient being is thinking or not thinking' in itself is also a "thing".

Hence in the begining, in the ending and during the process of everything in the cognition of any sentient being in any level, form, dimension of existence, the 'MIND' that thinks of 'everything' and the 'MIND' that thinks of 'nothing' is the same.

Therefore, everything is "everything' and everything is also 'nothing' and nothing is 'nothing' and nothing is also 'everything'.

Do you understand ? Most don't .

Answer 5

You're confusing yourself with the meaning of the words and the meaning you already have in your head.

I can't explain it, but that should help you figure it out yourself.

What does age and the depth of a thought have to do with one another? You're never too young or old to contemplate the mysteries of life.

Answer 6

youre absolutely right. religious people think that the universe must come from a god, and that nothing can come from nothing. but nothing is also a thing, because it has a name, and location. it is also an idea. true nothingness cant exist. read about chaos theory and multiverses. these things must exist, because nothingness cant.

Answer 7

WAY !!!!!! to much thinking

its simple really

if everything was nothing

how the hell did you write this question


ergo - your argument is flawed


so go get a girlfriend and relax , dont worry theres plenty of time for angst , wait till your old like me then panic


all the best
Ian

Answer 8

I sometimes have a god complex during my mad science ranting and gloating, which might actually help here.

With my evil genius, I am superior to everything.
Therefore, everything is nothing compared to me.
Thus, everything is nothing.

Answer 9

Consider Aristotle's definition of metaphysics as a starting point for your inquiry.

Answer 10

yes.today u are alive,that is every thing.oneday ur life come to an end,that is nothing.
so,everything =nothing