i'm trying to imagine what nothingness is. a situation before any theoretical branes could have existed. do you suppose the laws of physics apply when nothing is present? isn't absolute nothingness just as improbable as some superbeing creating us from nothing? indeed shouldn't something, even the most miniscule element of matter, energy, or whatever you want to call it, shouldn't it always have existed?
2007-10-29 05:25:59 · 12 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The correct answer is "we don't know."
2007-10-29 05:29:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's just about impossible to visualize nothingness. It took a supernatural Being to create the world and all that's in it. Best advice I can give on the subject is "read the bible". Any translation would give some answers but if you want true answers, don't bother with the New World Version which is not a translation but a revision of real bibles, adding words to change the meaning and leaving out words which distorts the meaning of the true bible. Would suggest the King James Version.
2007-10-29 05:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by angelo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if the ancient Mayan culture can create a SYMBOL (the number 0) for nothing, then I suppose an advanced society like our own could fathom nothingness......
2007-10-29 05:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it.
We are "somethingness" which means we cannot fathom nothingness.
To put this idea into perspective: I'm white. I can't fathom what being black is like. I can imagine, but most blacks will laugh off my efforts.
We can imagine what "nothingness" is, but because we have no basis of comparison, I'm sure our ideas are laughable.
2007-10-29 05:32:09 · answer #4 · answered by Quaoar Rocks! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you exist, it is much more likely for you to able to fathom something existing than not existing. It's just the way we're made. Doesn't make it true, though.
2007-10-29 05:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember what it was like before you were born? It's kind of like that. With our big brains we can know that we are finite, that doesn't mean we can understand it.
Was this question about conciousness after death or the begininng of the universe?
If it was about the universe, we can only observe within the limits of the universe, beyond those limits are unknow and imperceptable.
2007-10-29 05:39:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothingness is illogical and cannot exist. Anything you could TRY to label as "nothingness" actually has something to it.
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2007-10-29 05:38:26 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>can we even fathom nothingness?
It doesn't seem so. All our logic is based on the idea of something existing.
2007-10-29 05:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
thinking about questions like this is like holding a mirror up to another mirror and trying to see the very last image. if you think about this question for to long i guarantee your brain will eat itself
2007-10-29 05:34:44 · answer #9 · answered by TickyTack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,no,yes,yes.
2007-10-29 05:35:27 · answer #10 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, cause time has always existed, the dimension of time is infinite.
2007-10-29 05:35:59 · answer #11 · answered by iceman 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋