Nothing is a purely human construct. There is no "nothing". Even vacuum is something, it is vacuum. So I agree it is mind blown and I wonder what others' //understand// it to be, because I sure as heck don't understand what it is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A vacuum is the absence of something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You said "a vacuum is..." Therefore it "is." Therefore it exists. Therefore it is not nothing, it //is// something. It is not the absence of //something// it is //something.// It __is__ vacuum.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sure, according to the way english grammar works, it is something. But in reality, it isn't. There's nothing there. Calling it a vacuum doesn't change that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is nothing there. So nothing is what is there. It's like saying this sentence is false. Nothing can not exist because if it did then it would be something. By the way, I am not making this shit up, it has been debated since Parmenides first posed ontological questions 2500 years ago. A vacuum does not exist. Even if all matter could be removed from a volume, it would still not be "empty" due to the uncertainty principle and other aspects of quantum physics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You had me until "designed."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not a thing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nothing does not exist as there is not anything to exist. However, the concept of nothing exists, as there must be a way to describe it - nothing is something when describing the idea of it. If you ate nothing for breakfast, that doesn't mean that you ate something, it just means you have a way to describe not having breakfast. Although we have created the idea of and a word for having nothing, which both exist, it doesn't stop nothing from not existing as an object. Ok, reading this back is confusing me, sorry if it doesn't make any sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago