Does "nothing" exist?
Nothing is a creation of the human mind simply because space without matter has yet to be found. A spaceless space or the absence of matter would have to be found, but how do you even begin searching for "nothing"? How would you measure "nothingness"?
POSSIBLE "NOTHINGS":
Nothing exists only when placed next to something or compared to something.
"Nothing" as a measure of importance, such as the expression, "That ain't nothin' at all!"
Nothing can be the subject, but how do you talk about nothing without mentioning something?
For example, think of a blank, white piece of computer paper. It's not nothing because it is a nameable object: a piece of paper. But it's not really "something" because it's indistinguishable from any other piece of bond paper.
So let's say nothing is given a boundary, such as a jar with nothing in it. But this doesn't really make since I(maybe the jar is lacking in jelly beans) because there is still air in the jar, which is something.
Links to other thoughts on nothing:
http://express.howstuffworks.com/mb-nothing.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing
how does technology and computers relate to nothing?:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SzFXa-TytUA
1 comment:
That blank, on a certain scale --whih is to say, handling and interactions with what might be unseen at unassisted human scales may have marked that piece of paper, and since each piece of paper, even in a stack, isn't occupying exactly the same space, opportunities to be marked differently may exist.
Oil from the hands of handlers?
Different amounts of oil?
Scents?
Variations in the manufacture?
Oils and rsins from manufacture
penetrating paper to different depths?
Variations in texture
that perhaps can become apparent on different scales?
Subtle bends, twists, folds, creases, tears?
Variations in thickness?
Empty or blank in a practical way on the scale of most human encounters, but necessarily blank, necessarily empty? necessarily indistinguishable on other scales,
some of which may be rather easy to access, maybe nearby?
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