What exactly is nothing?

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If you are refering to space it would mean a defined area with no atoms, electrons, protons... parts of particles, energies (heat energy (if an atom was inside of nothing the electrons would not orbit around it, they would just be stuck, -400K), light (which is a particle traveling at the speed of light), any "wave" of energy(even though we dont know them all yet, like gravity which is created by gravitons in particles (one particle pulls on another no matter how far away, eventually they will join).

Chances are the only "Nothingness/Nothing" is on the outside of our universe as it expands outwards at the speed of light. (if you believe in the big bang) There is no way to pull a vacume that strong, keep it that cold, and not allow any "energies" to pass through, all you would end up with is an almost empty defined area.

Assuming the formula for Gravity is correct, the universe will continue expanding untill all the molecules and energies are pulled back in by their own gravity.

This "theory" of nothing, could all be easier to explain by teaching the big bang theory, then tieing two balls together with a string of rubber, have two people throw the two balls in oppisite directions, they will fly back to where they were thrown from.

Just past the maximum distance one of the balls flew from where they were thrown would be Nothing, or Nothingness, so to define nothing:

Nothing or Nothingness would be the area outside the maximum distance (radius from origin of big bang) any molecule or energy will ever reach before stopping and being pulled back in towards the center of the universe due to gravity. (people have theorized that when this shift happens time will reverse and rewind, thus leaving us to wonder has the universe been repeating itself over and over again)(my theory is that since we are alive, we represent a chaos that will change the next collapse and expansion of the universe).

Traditionally nothing has meant vacuum or space, but these days even that idea is challenged. When scientists and philosophers speculate about what is outside our universe they say "nothing," meaning absolutely nothing. Not even vacuum.

What that means, or how that is possible, is beyond my comprehension.

It is said that space (vacuum) was created at the Big Bang.

An analogy often used to describe the formation of the universe is a balloon dipped in paint. The Big Bang is compared to the inflation of the balloon. When the balloon expands the paint breaks apart exposing the underlying surface of the balloon. That paint is analogous to the stars, the galaxies, and other various forms of matter while the exposed balloon surface represents space or vacuum.

What is beyond the balloon? Nothing.

The concepts of both zero and infinity are rather difficult to grasp because we rarely, if ever, experience this. Nothing is exactly what it sounds like, there is absolutely nothing. Zero. When someone says they have nothing they are using the word incorrectly, nothing is the absence of all things which exist. Although he says he has nothing he actually has much including his body and so on... But if he had nothing he could never communicate this because he would have nothing to communicate this with, nor nothing to communicate this to, nor nowhere to communicate this at, nor nowhen to communicate this at.

Its a good question you are asking. A concept everyone has heard of but few grasp. Hope this helps.

i think the universe is created like this there is nothing so there is somthing so that nothing can be, now theres 2 nothing and somthing. but 2 makes 3 and 3 is nothing and somthing togeather. theres 1 and 1 = 2 so theres is 3 and three is (1 + 1 = 2) three numbers now 1 + 1 = 3 so there is 4 because we have 1,1,2(1) and 4 is what seperats thoes 3... lol just and idea so without nothing we cannot have somthing.

Hi, Nothing is nothing, until you make it something. Then you

have to see it or feel it or hear it, and then you have something.

You are something , you hear me. Stored in everyones

sub-concious mind is everything we have ever seen ,saw or heard or felt. And we have the amazing ability to recall them

from day one. This is a built in protection for our well being

as a human being. A lot of people just recall bad times, and

that is why they are depressed most of their life. I myself

dwell on the good recalls that i have stored for 40 yrs. now. C Ray

Mathematically 1/1=1 2/2=1 infinity/infinity=1 0/0=0 1X1=1 0X0=0 infinityXinfinity=infinity so if you hold your hand out infront of you are you holding nothing or everything? if you turn it upside down did you drop nothing or everything? it is all in the perception on what value you give to it.

Nothingness according to me is a state of singularity. Imagine what would have filled the space before the big bang

Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]

1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word

thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

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Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.

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2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;

nothingness. --Shak.

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3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something

irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative

unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

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This has been debated for the past 30 years by Particle Physicysts, Cosmologists, and Mathematicians, each redefining the concept of zero.

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.