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If everything is SOMETHING then what is NOTHING?


I asked my teacher that and she had no idea...lol
Nothing is the opposite of something
In response to Critical
dude READ WHAT I SAID, IF EVERYTHING IS SOMETHING THEN WTF IS NOTHING
In response to Kasper4sale
Nothing is nothing at all.
In response to Kasper4sale
You are confusing everything with being all enclusive. Nothing does not have any matter or energy, so it is not encluded in everything. Nothing is the lack of anything.

Unless you count it as a word, in that case "nothing" is a word, and is something.

P.S. Stop using caps, you don't sound very smart with them.
In response to Scoobert
Yeah, "nothing" isn't included in "everything"... Nothing is the lack of everything...
In response to Scoobert
But isn't the lack of anything something?
In response to Data-Con
But there's nothing left to define! :o
In response to Sarm
I've always wondered the same thing... I've asked my teacher and he was stumped.
In response to KirbyRules
No, that lack of anything is nothing, not something. Much like 1/0. People have a hard time understanding why that is not 0, but rather undefined. Nothing is nothing, not something. I think your mistake is take something and everything and assuming that they are all enclusive, and they are not. Everything refers to everyTHING, all that exists, but not what does not.
In response to Scoobert
nothin is something that doesnt exist.....and i could care LESS IF I DONT SOUND SMART.....and everything is something....
In response to Kasper4sale
The trouble is that humans can't fully comprehend true nothing... We have a vague concept of what it is, but the full picture of "nothing" isn't within our mental grasp...

So, when thinking of "nothing" in human terms, we automatically think of it as being something... We're only thinking of our concept of "nothing", though... That is something, but the true nature of "nothing" is simply "nothing"... It is not a part of something, anything, or everything...lol
In response to Kasper4sale
Kasper4sale wrote:
.....and everything is something....

That's why nothing is nothing. :D
In response to SuperSaiyanGokuX
Something - nothing = Something
Everything - nothing = everything
In response to Sarm
but still the fact that everything is something, then nothing has to be something.....


<<Kasper>>

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In response to Kasper4sale
Nope! Because everything is something! A nothing is not something, otherwise it'd be a something.
In response to Kasper4sale
I've illustrated the question! Check it out!
In response to SuperSaiyanGokuX
I believe we can't understand nothing because it doesn't exist. If it did, then it would be something. The most nothing has amounted to is a word and a faint philosophy. To understand nothing, we have to send an electrical impulse through our brain, which makes it something, and no longer nothing. It's like trying to imagine the 4th dimension on a graph, we know it's there, theres just no way to represent it.
Kasper4sale wrote:
If everything is SOMETHING then what is NOTHING?


I asked my teacher that and she had no idea...lol
var/nothing=null
In response to DarkCampainger
No, you are talking about the thought of nothing, not nothing it's self. You are confusing the two. Just because you can represent something does not mean it exists. WMDs anyone?
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