The 2,000,000th post game

BIG:
Tom Hanks/Michael Sullivan

John Heard/Ace Morgan

TODAY IS NATIONAL NOTHING DAY

Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building?

Of course! The Empire State Building can’t jump.

You’re right...

...no one can be expected to remember something that happened a year ago. Now...

...pass the peas.

You seem lonely...

...single...

...and kinda weird.
Let’s continue this online.

And

There is vastly more nothing than something. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,” or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4 percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call something.

And even something is mostly nothing. Atoms overwhelmingly consist of empty space. Matter’s solidity is an illusion caused by the electric fields created by subatomic particles.

There is more and more nothing every second. In 1998 astronomers measuring the expansion of the universe determined that dark energy is pushing apart the universe at an ever-accelerating speed. The discovery of nothing—and its ability to influence the fate of the cosmos—is considered the most important astronomical finding of the past decade.

But even nothing has a weight. The energy in dark matter is equivalent to a tiny mass; there is about one pound of dark energy in a cube of empty space 250,000 miles on each side.

In space, no one can hear you scream. Sound, a mechanical wave, cannot travel through a vacuum. Without matter to vibrate through, there is only silence. So what if Kramer falls in a forest? Luckily, electromagnetic waves, including light and radio waves, need no medium to travel through, letting TV stations broadcast endless reruns of Seinfeld, the show about nothing.