The Existance of .. Nothing

[Fido]

Originally Posted by OntheWindowStand

If we are talking physically nothing then yes that is a easy question. nothing is right outside our atmosphere onlything there are forms of enerygy no matter at all though

I don't mean to abuse you, but the relative nothiness of space is only that, and it is a rather safe conclusion that there is. at a minimum, a whole lot of free hydrogen through out the cosmos. And, if Aristotle was right that nothing has no proportional relationship with one, or two, or three; then zero as a concept is not really a concept at all, but is instead a mathamatical fiction given to make equations efficient, and workable. Math, like language is an abstraction of reality, and yet, it does not have to be exact to be generally correct, and since it is a form of relationship, past errors can be corrected for in the present.

[Holiday20310401]

'Nothing' is not a very hard concept to grasp and yet so hard to be ascertained, if even possible.

[Fido]

Originally Posted by Holiday20310401

'Nothing' is not a very hard concept to grasp and yet so hard to be ascertained, if even possible.

If it cannot be ascertained it cannot even be a concept, but as a framework for all that is real, in the sense of space, it is simply accepted as fact without definition or certainty or concept. Look at it this way: We concieve of all things in order to manipulate them, mentally, in order to accomplish with little effort, or error what life demands of us. It is both impossible and pointless to try to manipulate nothing. Rather nothing is the space within which reality is manipulated. What do you think

[franc]

Energy and matter are essentially the same thing, so as far as we can tell we have never observed true nothingness. Even a vacuum has energy.

[Fido]

Originally Posted by franc

Energy and matter are essentially the same thing, so as far as we can tell we have never observed true nothingness. Even a vacuum has energy.

Isn't that last sentence easier said than proven? Clearly space, as we know, it is loaded with matter. I don't think it can be shown that if matter as we know it is excluded from a space, that ether, or neutrinos do not move in. The thing is, that neutrinos or ether have no energy as we think of energy. They do not move, and they do not carry a charge, and they cannot be made to move or to carry a charge. Since electro magnetic radiation can be transmitted through it, light, or radio waves, etc, it can transmite force, but not hold force. What do you think

[krazy kaju]

Technically speaking, nothing cannot exist but anything can not exist.

Did that make any sense?

[Fido]

Originally Posted by krazy kaju

Technically speaking, nothing cannot exist but anything can not exist.

Did that make any sense?

Nothing cannot possibly exist. Anything and everything does exist. Thing means res, from where we get re-s-ality. Thing equates to matter. Now, here is the deal. If you were to take a teaspoon of matter from some planet, and it weighed eight tons on this earth, wouldn't that seem as matter, and our earth as nothing? In fact, all that we know of, even in space, fits on a continuum of very dense, to very thin; and it is possible that all space from which matter, that we think of as matter is excluded from actually contains a lot of neutral matter that we usually do not consider as matter.

[WhatIsEverything]

There is no existence to nothing. Basically people are describing nothing as air. but air is something. Even anti-matter IS something. Its not matter but it is something and not nothing.

[AtheistDeity]

Is something simply isn't , than no, it doesn't exist. A place were nothing exists could not possibly exist, because without existance there is nothing to make it a "place".
You could imagine this, but it would only your thought of this place that existed, and the thought of non-existance is indeed existance, therfore not actually non-existance but, theory.
If you imagine a place that does not exist you will never find, for it does not exist. Keep on imagining though ;D

[Ennui]

Originally Posted by Paradox1

Guys, this is one thing I've been thinking of for quite a while. Is there such thing as "Nothing"?

By nothing I don't mean "My coffee! It's gone! There's nothing left!", I mean .. Is there, somewhere, a place or location or whatever that is completely devoid of EVERYTHING, including the "building blocks" of life?

Give your ideas people.

It would be a dark void when you die.Death is nothing in the aftermath.