What is "nothing" ?

you can move in water

Does space exist in space? Where/within what does it exist?

Can space and other objects occupy the same space at the same time?

Only because of the space/nothingness between the water particles.

Hey Michael, Vsauce here.
If I look at the sky, I see nothing..... Or do I ?
*music starts playing*

Kek

There is only the traditional idea of nothing - a total vacuum of data, but it ends there. There are always a set of rules determining material behavior of a given space, this means that given space itself has an inherent state of presence, which means it has spacetime potential. Then there is absolute nothing wherein, there are no features and there are no observable qualities, as it stands though in our universe there is nothing that can equate to absolute nothing.

nothing is the space between thing

Yeah and the majority of matter is empty space

Space itself is a thing.

>what are orbitals

The absence of something. I know this sounds a bit stupid, but it's the most accurate answer to your question.

a word for a thought

It's supposed to mean something but it's a word that lacks physical reference and thus is completely fictional.

if space isn't nothing, then is nothing in itself the absence of space? what would the absence of space be? where is the edge of existence? what properties does it hold? is there a void beyond the black void that goes beyond black? is there a fuzzy logic that can be applied to existence? i'm scared guys.

nothing is the absence of anything

but can something retain an "is" property if it has the absence of all that "is"? i know that's philosophy shit, but what i mean is how is the only property that something has is that it has no properties? or rather, its absent of any property? since that's a property in of itself, does it become a paradox? the idea of nothingness conflicts with me in this sense.

Well I like to think of it like this: White is blank. White is nothing. This text is called text. Without text we would have "nothing". It is something, nothing is something. We can reference it so it is.

the null set

Everything

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics

think "indiscriminate"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra

its impossible to think of pure nothingness really
its like trying to think of time before the big bang
you just fill it up with something again

personal incredulity is a fallacy

i can think of nothingness

i start with nothing and continue

i guess i have godlike intelligence then

The observable absence of quantifiable reflection

Have a nice day :)

>yfw

well thats real nice

Nothing is nothing, a complete lack of stuff in general, the reason people have such a hard time explaining this is because the brain is not made to handle a lack of infomation. One example of this is when people deprived there senses the brain makes infomation up like sounds and tastes that arent there.

Imagine outer space, somewhere between 2 galaxies far away from anything, there will be some small bit of hydrogen atoms and shit still there, so imagine you remove all of those as well, completely empty space with nothing in it.

Now take the space away too and you have nothing.

time is still here

nothing is a concept to describe the absence of a particular thing, or all things, in a given space

that's a nice wasp

post more hymenoptera

Imagine a single wooden chair
Now erase it from your mind

Ta-da
You just thought about nothing

An object that does not [interact with] or affect anything in a system

Are you kidding? Wasps/Hornets are fucking terrifying. I hate hymenoptera like nothing else, probably due to traumatic childhood experiences.

Dindu?

>I hate hymenoptera like nothing else
what's your angle, man? bumblebees are super cute
also ants are pretty cool

¬(thing)

my wages

Unstable.

If there is nothing, what stops something from appearing?

(nothing, no logic, rules, laws)

See
>Spacetime potential
read: potential to be metered in some fashion, even if only by classical dimensional classifications (i.e. 1D, 2D, 3D), in the absence of even space no classifications can then be applied other than absolute nothing. It must be -1D.

Nothing simply is an abstract idea of the lack of existence.

There's a good documentary on the subject, called "The Neverending Story," you should check it out.

A placeholder for, "something."

The final stage of anything and everything.

One stage after God.

indivisible, with liberty and justice

Absolutes can only be defined by their opposites. Nothing is the opposite of something.

AM I BETTER OFF DEAD

Define "thing"

>define
what did he mean by this?

underrated

Often times we have to negate dimensions/units in an equation. However, there is still a numerical value (even if you negated everything), and it's not like those dimensions go anywhere, right? Or alternatively, if you divide by zero or multiply by zero, there is still dimension?

there we go

having mass or energy

Philosophically speaking, nothing can only be a human concept that doesn't exist in reality at all.

The concept of nothing does not allow for "something" to come out of it. Thus the fact that we even exist, leads us to infer that "something" is the base nature of reality.

Oh and, since someone's going to go all "-> /pol" about the philosophy reference: Just don't. If you were even thinking about it, then I suggest you first educate yourself on the basics of the relationship that science and philosophy have.

anything that isn't measureable or observable.

>"-> /pol"

>what is nothing?
Everything.

Existence isn't a predicate, read Kant.