Does absolute nothingness exist? (And if so, what's it look like?)?
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Absolute nothingness can mean two things: absolute vacuum or as in there's completely nothing, not even space.\n\nThis very hard to have this idea to be understood. That's because we cannot think of anything outside of our universe. We live and think in a 3-dimensional universe and therefore cannot correctly think in higher dimensions (let alone proving it). We do not know and cannot prove if either meanings of absolute nothingness actually exist.\n\nThe things you hear about what's outside the universe or what's not (including absolute nothingness) are only theories, not facts. Not even close. We can only make theories to what things there are that are dimensionally outside the universe.\n\nTo answer your question, we really don't know and if it does exist, we cannot see it or live in it. There wouldn't even be darkness if absolute nothingness exist.\n\nOh, and one more thing:  Black holes are not absolute nothingness. Just a very very very very very very very very dense (did I mention very?) matter that its gravity is SO strong that light can't even escape it, materialistically or relatively (as in, Einsten's theory of relativity, where a huge mass will make such a curve in the space-time plane and a blackhole will make such a huge one that light will forever spiral in it towards the center).\n\nAnywho, blackholes are not nothingness. Just that light can't even escape it, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing there.\n\nPS Penguins!!!\nPSS I have used the 3-dimensions reason to a lot of questions like these, but that's always the reason when it comes to things that are about anything outside the universe (physically, dimensionally, theoretically, and/or mentally).
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No such things exist, nor could they exist.
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The answer is nothing...
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how do you understand anything?  We can't understand everything there are things beyond our comprehension.  Try to think about this, does space end?  Is it infinte?  what is infinite?  You kno?
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This is the case\ncircumferences no where centres everywhere\n\nJust try,  even you can not imagine NOTHING, because before imagining that, your mind was already there, thereby the NOTHINGNESS is voilated.\n Even the 'ZERO' is not the one we usually think.\nIt is a compromising point of  +(Plus) and - (Minus) infinity !!!!!. Even mathametically all is filled in 'ZERO'. Enven any number, say 100, it is 0-1000, that is to say you have borrowed it from 'ZERO'\nIt enough for now,  there is musch more to say about 'ZERO'
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IN THE BEGINNIG IF THERE WAS ONE>>>>\n\nIn the Beginning, there was no Beginning because at the time, there was no Time. However, our minds cannot grasp a condition of no-time, so let us pretend that there was a Beginning and begin again: \n\nIn the Beginning, there was THAT WHICH WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE -- or “IT”, for short.\n\nNow IT was and is both NOTHING and EVERYTHING at the same time. IT was NOTHING because in the Beginning, there were no things--only IT. However, IT was also simultaneously EVERYTHING because IT could be, would be, and always is every thing and all things that can ever exist. IT is infinite CREATIVE POWER with the potential to create anything, to BE anything. But at the beginning, as yet no-thing was created and there was only IT.\n\nAnd because there is only IT, anything that IT should create, IT would have to create it out of ITself. There was-is nothing else to create anything out of. There is not and cannot be that which is not IT. There is only the ONE.\n\nIT is far, far beyond human comprehension and anything we humans say about IT is less than a grain of sand on the Sahara. To even talk about IT, we have to use a comparison, an analogy, of something already within our experience=knowledge. Let’s start with a desert. \nImagine an infinite desert, an infinite plane of pure sand, with absolutely nothing else existing. Our desert is absolutely level without the least depression or the smallest mound. IT is exactly the same everywhere; there is absolutely no distinction, no differentiation, no distinguishing mark, and no landmarks. Even the grains of sand are identical. There is only IT. Infinite in all directions, IT has no limit, no edge--and therefore no center. Or everywhere is the center, depending on how you want to look at it. \n\nNotice that you have absolutely no way of knowing where you are on this plane. There is absolutely no reference point, no center, no edge, no distinctive feature, no landmark to distinguish any point from any other point. There is no relation or relationship—no Relativity--to anything else because there is no-thing else. Without Relativity, you can have no Identity. (The concepts of Relativity and Identity are explained in subsequent chapters.)\n\nIt makes no difference where you are on this plane—there are no differences, remember--because everywhere you are, IT is exactly the same. And no matter how you move or where you go, you are always exactly at the center of an infinity of sameness. Thus, there isn’t any place different to go—everything is the same. Nor can you go anywhere because no matter how you move you are always at the center of an infinity of NOTHING. Without Relativity to some point, to some distinction or landmark, you couldn´t even tell if you are moving or not. Therefore, there is no motion. \n\nPicture all this before you continue.\n\nNow let’s upgrade our analogy to three dimensions. The word and concept that we humans have that most closely corresponds to IT is “ENERGY”. IT is ENERGY with the characteristics of CONSCIOUSNESS, INTELLIGENCE, WILL and CAUSE=CREATOR. \n\nThe highest form of physical energy that we humans can perceive is light. Let’s use light for our analogy and move from two to three dimensions. So now imagine IT as light, as a glowing white fog. Imagine this lighted fog as infinite in all directions with no end, no edge and therefore no center--or everywhere is the center, depending on how you want to look at it. \n\nImagine every part of our fog=IT as exactly the same; there is no variation, no thinning, no concentration, and no differentiation of any kind. There is no distinction, no distinguishing mark, no things, no objects, no waves. There is no gravity or any other force by which to know an orientation or a direction. There is no up-down, left-right, in-out, above-below, north-south, etc.\n\nOur Light-Energy is CONSCIOUSNESS: Consciousness is the awareness, the experience of, existence.
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There is no way to prove a negative.  You are asking me to prove that something doesn't exist.
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The universe is an indefinite entity.It is bounded by 'nothing' even in the strict sense of modern physics.
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The concept (that's what this really is) of nothing - or "no thing" is easy to understand and explain its existence. Lets examine a few things to get a grasp of this.\n\nFor example, when there is a lack of water, we say that its state of being is dry, arid, etc. Simply because there is a lack of something doesn't mean it does not exist.\n\nMy second example is that of your self. If you are not in a specific location at a specific time, and I am a witness to that event - or lack thereof - does that mean you do not exist? Surely not.\n\nFinally, the concept of "no thing" goes one step further than the examples above, however it is important to remember that the state of being no thing is exactly that - a state of being. Can something that does not even exist have a state of being (or a state of not being in this case)? It must exist to have these attributes. Simply because some thing does not have tangibility in our physical realm does not mean it does not exist. In fact, I would argue that due to all of the things I've stated here, it is more likely that the things we can not see or grasp are more likely to be real in a truer sense than the things we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste everyday. Simply because it is a concept does not mean it can not exist.
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Time does not really exist.  It has a temporal existence that is passing and fading and decaying.  Put simply, there will be a last day, just as there was a first and as such time will have no claim to true existence.  Time will be swallowed by timelessness, as it was before time.  \n\nTime can only exist as timelessness moves aside, and creates a void of timelessness in which time may exist temporally.  Timelessness is the absolute from which time is derived, and upon which time is contingient.\n\nHowever, if you belive that you exist.  then you can say "i am."  You have temporal existence.  But only as the ABSOLUTE "I AM" moved aside for a while so that you could exist within the void of Himself.  You can only say that you are because the Great "I AM" made a place for you by getting out of the way.  \n\nThe Lord is the Absolute "I AM" from which you derived and upon which your ability to say "i am" is contingient.  You would not exist had not God existed before you and moved himself through compression to create a void in which you may temporarily exist.   The only reason you can say "i am" is that God says "I AM."\n\nFurthermore, your temporal existence is the PROOF that absolute existence is the true reality.  Want to disprove God's existence?  Then you must make yourself (and everyone else) non-existant, because each breath you take .. and each moment that someone can say "i am" is the proof of an absolute reality that says "I AM."\n\nGod is beyond the cosmos, and has moved aside to create a void of Himself in which you now exist - the cosmos ... a temporal void.
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If a tree falls in the woods, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a noise?\n\nIt doesn't matter.\n\nTHAT is existential reality.
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of your choices, the one "no heat engine can be 100% efficient" is most correct, isn't it? But doesn't it primarily derive from second law, and the third law is that "absolute zero" is unattainable? [though in a tiny space, the University of Florida is testing a theory that a random tiny state would be possible, at "no motion", hence, absolute zero]
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Hello Rendier.. :)\n\nI just heard the other day, a scientist that said that you cannot produce something out of nothing..\n\nSo how then can they say, that the universe came from nothing..\n\nGod created the Heavens and the Earth..that makes more sense..It just seems to easy for those that do not believe in God..
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In the meaningless void, there is no death in which to mean nothing, just simply nothing, it's your illusion that keeps you to that idea of something meaning nothing.  You're wrong in the idea that there is such a thing as death in the first place in this meaningless void.
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absolutely nothing at all
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Possibly so. Possibly no. I'd say the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes foremost into play here. Maybe also Schrödinger's cat. Is it dead or still alive? That would make a significant difference, you know. These questions can't just be taken so lightly. And how could you even consider Y!A as a forum to resolve such complex issues as this? More to the point, even assuming Planck scale dynamics can be fully understood with the mathematical tools we have at hand today, where exactly does that get us? We still don't know what topping to put on our pizza this weekend. Or whether a third eye would make a good chick magnet. Or even whether that darn cat is still alive or dead.... 'tis an enduring mystery. And we wouldn't want to take all the mysterious challenge out of life, now would we?....Meow.
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The universe is everything that exists.  The opposite would be everything that doens't exist.  So, the opposite is nothing.