Re: Nothingness
Originally posted by Storm
What is nothingness? Can such a thing exist?
Anything that exists, would be something. So exists nothingness only as a concept in the mind?
Imagine for a moment that you know everything in existence. Absolutely everything from what "is" to what is "not" and everything possible in between. Imagine that all your knowledge that you hold right now is everything there is to know. If you can put yourself there, hold it for a moment.
Being of that mind....ask a question.
That's how I see nothingness. It is also complete fullness. No question, no existence....no life no death. Simply what "is". By that it's completeness makes it empty at the same time. Everything is a paradox. Allows for free will to have no restrictions. You can but you can't, choose. Each to their own.
Re: Nothingness
Originally posted by Storm
What is nothingness? Can such a thing exist?
Anything that exists, would be something. So exists nothingness only as a concept in the mind?
Yes. It is just a concept. It's just the way our minds work. Like in Timeline by Michael Crichton, he says that thinking that time is flowing is just a default in our brains. It is actually not flowing, because time does not exist.
Read the book. It's way hard to explain
The Universe was created in the Big Bang 13,7 billion years ago. What was before that? Was that the “nothingness” we’re trying to define?
Yes and no.
Physicist don’t know what was BEFORE BB, because time AND space and matter and energy and forces were created back then. So without the concept of TIME you can’t even talk about “before”. It was probably some kind of primordial quantum soup, which means a lot of probabilities, amplitudes and other funky quantum yes/no at the same time. If you wait long enough the improbable will happen. If you wait forever the impossible will happen. If there is no time, the impossible will happen “now”.
Vacuum, as “empty space” is far from empty. There is dust and radiation, and of course lots of stuff happening at the sub-atomic level, and space and time. (Space being understood best as DIRECTIONS).
Then there is the – what’s outside our Universe? We’ll never know, as our Universe is curved into itself, so there’s no BORDER.
But that would be the best “nothingness” I can think of.
Nothing is essentially a concept, becuase no-one has ever experienced it. But just like the other things we've never seen, not seeing doenst mean it can't be real.
Nothingness is the absence of everything...therefore it has to exist, because everything has an opossite, and the opposite of something-would be nothing.
ex: White is an absence of color, yet we see it.
^^ i have no idea if that makes sense...but anyway
Originally posted by The Omega
The Universe was created in the Big Bang 13,7 billion years ago. What was before that? Was that the “nothingness” we’re trying to define?
Yes and no.
Physicist don’t know what was BEFORE BB, because time AND space and matter and energy and forces were created back then. So without the concept of TIME you can’t even talk about “before”. It was probably some kind of primordial quantum soup, which means a lot of probabilities, amplitudes and other funky quantum yes/no at the same time. If you wait long enough the improbable will happen. If you wait forever the impossible will happen. If there is no time, the impossible will happen “now”.
Vacuum, as “empty space” is far from empty. There is dust and radiation, and of course lots of stuff happening at the sub-atomic level, and space and time. (Space being understood best as DIRECTIONS).Then there is the – what’s outside our Universe? We’ll never know, as our Universe is curved into itself, so there’s no BORDER.
But that would be the best “nothingness” I can think of.
That's why there's always been the term nothingNESS. Because it's not ACTUALLY nothing. Just a version of.
Going back to your first part, that's always something I think about. There always had to be something before the big bang, because time always has existed, quite clearly. By definition, time cannot "begin". Mind-boggling stuff.
-AC
actually, it is possible in a sence, i dont remmeber exacty how small, but theres theoretically, a smallest size that any space or matter can have{its realllyyyyyyyyyy small}, at this size , zero point energy from hyperspace meats quantum foam and gives rise to space{dimensions} and basically, gives rise to what we call EXISTANCE