I was tempted just to post a blank page, but that still wouldn’t have been nothing and would have been cheating. So here we go…
Nothing At The End?
Let’s say you walk into a room and there is “nothing in it” — no objects of any kind, no furniture and no people. It’s just four walls, a ceiling and a floor.
Even though we think of the room as empty, what this room contains is air. Floating around the room are an unbelievable number of atoms and molecules. The air in the room contains nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and all sorts of other chemicals. But we cannot see all these atoms because they are transparent. So we think of the room as full of nothing, even though it is full of atoms.
To get to a real form of “nothing”, we need to go into outer space. Imagine that you go to the farthest, emptiest corner of the universe. This is as close to nothing as we are ever going to get. What we are looking for is a section of space that contains zero atoms. No atoms at all — it is a perfect vacuum. That is the best approximation of “nothing” that we have in our universe today.
So how would it be possible to imagine nothing? It isn’t.
So what colour is nothing? What we think of as “color” comes from light that hits our eyes. Small units of light, called photons, have to leave the object we are looking at in order for our eyes to see a color. Photons can either be produced by something, like a light bulb, or they can bounce off of something and get reflected into our eyes. Those photons are what our eyes “see.”
Since “nothing” contains zero atoms, there is nothing in “nothing” that can produce photons, or reflect them – so there are zero photons. Our eyes see zero photons as black. So the color of “nothing” is black.
But here’s a deeper question: Is a section of space that contains zero atoms really “nothing”?
Is It All Magic?
Not really. Space, even if there are no atoms in it, is “something.” For example, photons can move through space even if the space contains zero atoms. So can gravity. So can radio waves. So can a magnet’s field. And we can measure space — a chunk of space has a length, a width and a height. And time elapses. In other words, empty space is a measurable framework that has the ability to transmit certain types of energy.
“True nothing” would be truly nothing — no space. This is hard to get a grasp on, because we cannot imagine this kind of nothing. We have never seen it. It is, presumably, what existed before the universe existed. Apparently, at the creation of the universe, there was truly nothing. Space, with its ability to transmit different types of energy, was created when the universe was created. Then energy in this space condensed into matter — the atoms that we find all around us today.
“True nothing” is that immeasurable, zero-energy, non-existent thing that did not exist before the universe, and all the space in it, came into existence.
I’m not sure that there is really a beginning and an end in science. The one true fact is inflinity.
All people and things are composed of atoms too, which were infitessimal, until man discovered how to destoy them in order to make nuclear weapons, but their components, protons, electrons and neutrons will still go on forever.
Even once you get beyond the electrons and photons and gravity you run into Dark Energy. The only time you can have true nothing is when Dark Energy pushes your observable universe into a state smaller than the Planck constant so that the universe that you can observe is unobservable.
I just gave myself a headache. Ouch.
Nice post.
Interesting, Now analyze this.
Thing and No-Thing.
Things are what we call things. An atom or a molecule may be a thing. Means things constitute of atoms. When you are in space, you actually have nothing (in a given square feet of darkness) and when you analyze that particular square feet it does not have any gravity, coz it carry no mass, or for that matter any other thing coz there are no atoms in it, which we call a thing.
Hope you consider and understand what I am trying to convey here?
True. While it is hard to get a quick grasp on this topic, a deeper and closer study does throw a vast area to ponder upon. Nice and revealing post.
Great blog. I also love to think about these things with Scientific view.
None doesn’t exsist, while we are here and observe, feel, think everything.
So there is no None really, but there IS in our consciousness somehow.
I may think that’s because Universe gave us the recognition that our place is special and something that we have to attend the importance.
About the beginning of Universe, unfrotunately I can not agree with you(because I believe multiple-Universe and true eternity which we human have the difficulty to recognize) but anyway great blog, keep it up!
If True Nothing occupies no space, it could still be everywhere. Several times over.
Wow. I hadn’t thought about this since I was a little kid (seriously). I eventually just let it go, because it finally dawned on me (even as a kid) that I couldn’t get there from here.
Thanks for bringing back the great inspiration and memories.
On to the Miraculous!
Dahling, nothing is most always something.
Great blog I love this subject QED quantum electro Dynamics richard fiyneman (Spelling wrong) I collected the best videos on youtube on a channel on the subject heres the url just cut and paste if it isnt live.
I talk some on my blog as well http://u501.com nice to see chris visiting. I thought i would return the surf.
Thanks maybe we should set up a web ring on the subject?
Sent you an email.
Hello, everybody!
Chris – if white(white light) is actually the combination of all the colors in the spectrum, I think nothing = Pure Black. Vacuum
(this ”theory” sounds better in poetry, I have to write a poem to explain everything about… nothing
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Have a nice day
thanks, if you do write a poem please post it!
I didn’t want to think anything big today lol. That is good food for thought.
Well written
Is this where I am suppose to post a comment
this is a great post that can make people ponder about nothing or if truely nothing is existed or not. Is theres really nothing in the universe? tsek tsek really difficult to say.
Fascinating post!
Really well written too.
Cool post man.
I agree with you, We cannot ever comprehend absolute nothing-ness because we will never be able to exist in nothing.
The definition of nothing is the ABSENCE of something. Therefore, nothing can not be something. The Word nothing is something, but the object itself is not. Nothing as far as science can tell us, Does Not exist. But if it did, it would be nothing.
But nothing describes nothing.