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2007-12-04 08:06:51 · 8 answers · asked by probe 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Nothing" is a conceptual "place holder," like zero in numbers, as in 10. It holds the place of the concept that recognizes an absence of something needs a concept to explain its absence. If it existed in existential reality, existence would disappear.
That is a necessary impossiblity.
2007-12-04 08:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing is simply the absence of something. Everything exists. There is no such thing as nothing.
2007-12-04 08:16:59 · answer #2 · answered by gismoII 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, yes, what is this "nothing"? Is it merely "lack of stuff"? In that case, in theory, such a simplistic (I daresay simpleminded) "nothing" could, in theory, exist in some part of the universe that has no particles AND is utterly untouched by radiant energy. However, is that patch of "lack of stuff" truly *nothing*. After all, that location still would exist, would it not, making it a "something"--it would be a location. It would be empty of matter and energy but it would still exist in the sense of having place. Thus, it fails in the task of being "nothing".
To be "nothing", truly nothing, it would have to have no attributes, not even location. Thus, to exist, "nothing" would have to not exist.
2007-12-04 08:18:31 · answer #3 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even intergalactic space may have 1 atom per cubic meter and it still isn't a perfect vacuum. Then there's gravity. There are photons, There are x-rays, there may even be a medium with which all of this interacts. There is dark matter and there is dark energy and who knows what else.
10 years ago, an important physicist told me that everything basic was understood, only chaos was still a mystery. We call it chaos. They call it non-linear dynamics. That was 2 years before the announcement of dark energy.
2007-12-04 08:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two types of nothing.
there is the nothing that precedes an incident,which has to be finite and have a potential.
There is the nothing after an incident,which has no potential and is in a state of eternal nothing.
The end of an incident which will never occur again.
2007-12-04 08:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In so much as there is also no such thing as something.
2007-12-04 08:47:01 · answer #6 · answered by zero 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing exists in a vacuum state. While impossible to comprehend by the human mind, vast streches of our universe are "empty", that is, they are filled by no matter - no atoms, no molecules, nothing.
2007-12-04 08:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by mannzaformulaone 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is only something because of nothing!
2007-12-04 08:09:52 · answer #8 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋