How Does 'Something' Come From 'Nothing'? 🌎
Some people may say that space is mostly comprised of empty space; I would disagree. Space is anything but empty. Many believe the Big Bang was a massive explosion of matter into the nothingness of space, but most leading scientists will tell you that the Big Bang was the expansion of space itself.
We may need to see times before the Big Bang to truly understand nothingness within our world. Perhaps nothingness sows the seeds for something to take its place.
An Example Of 'Nothingness'
Imagine a box, let's take a 1m³ box, for example. This box has walls that are impermeable to everything; this includes things like gravity waves. In a hypothetical situation, we are able to remove every atom from within the box and also manage to stop it from producing any particles/antiparticles inside the box. This is as close to 'nothing' as I could imagine.
However, could you define nothingness as something? We really need to define something to understand it.
The Definition Of Something
Google's definition of something:
In Google's definition of something, we see it as this obscure thing. It is described as 'unspecified' and 'unknown'. If we link this back to our previous example, we knew the exact contents of that box that we created. If we know the contents then surely our example is not correct.
My Thoughts
Some may argue something, and nothing only exist as they are contrasts of each other. Some may say the only reason perception exists is to contrast no-perception. Life and death exist to contrast each other; one could not exist without the other. Us humans live in a world of duality. This makes it increasingly hard to explain something where its contrast is also present.
Whether or not 'nothing is something' very much is dependent on the exact definition of each individual world. Conditional to which definition is chosen, the phrase 'nothing is something' can be true in some instances and false in others.
To be frank, talking about these terms is futile, except to show how human logic can be flawed when it cannot produce a significant conclusion. This is a very grey area which could be argued either way.
Fortunately for us, there was no big bang.
And all we can do is talk about the canvas, onto which our universe was painted. Since all we know is the canvas. There is no place the canvas is missing. (fish - water sorta thing)
Add to this that most scientist have been trained to not think of the aether. But, it is really impossible to understand space without understanding the aether from which it springs. I do not mean space, the final frontier, which is supposedly a vacuum. I mean the space between any two objects.
Anyway, atheistic-scientists are bending over backwards to try to define a world that happened by blind chance. By blind luck. That there was no creator. That there was nothing before. No guiding hand, no consciousness. Because, if they are unable to do this, all of "science" crashes in a heap.
well we are expanding into the "not universe" (giggle)
Very thoughtful
I think you got to the core of it when you mentioned we humans function on duality. It's what our language is based on, what our brains are wired to. Nothing will only be the opposite to something and by being that, it already is defined. Same way as good and bad, or as you said life and death, need each other to co exist. They are opposites, but are in the same plain. However, good and bad, happy and sad - these can be transcended through awareness. In yoga, it is awareness which is the sky through which the clouds move. What about not nothingness, but consciousness being a different kind of answer to what emptiness is?
No such thing as nothing, something always fills the void.
When looking at 'nothing' there are particles which are something.
Perhaps it is our approach when looking and deciphering that we may interpret that varies in the power of either word.
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