Friday, June 20, 2008

Nothing: Real or Fake?

So, as I was talking with my friends in Gmail Chat, one of them asked what we were talking about in private chat. I told him "Nothing, actually". But then in private chat, I started talking about nothing. Nothing, to me, is one of the coolest words. Does it's meaning exist? Is it possible to have/look at/think about/do/etc. or just Nothing? It was such a compelling idea that my 2 friends and I decided to write a post about nothing. I believe that it's definition is in different "frequencies", per say. For example, to say someone has "nothing in their house" would mean that they have little possessions inside or around their house. But they do not have "nothing", because that sentence implied that they do in fact own a house. So, does nothing exist? That question, let alone the answer, is debatable. How can you have all of everything exist and not nothing? Or vice versa. I think that the definition of nothing is too complex and actually impossible for a human to understand. For instance, humans could not live before the Big Bang. NOTHING could live before the Big Bang. NOTHING existed before the Big Bang. This is impossible for us to fathom because to experience nothing would be like to equal nothing. Therefore, we would not exist in nothing. I think that, in a way, us humans sort of "cheat". Using the word "nothing" to describe an absence of thought, being, or existence (all of those to an extent to which human minds can comprehend), as well as to describe something of little or no importance, and the opposite of something, as opposed to immediate non-existence that is NON-comprehensible to human mind. So, in a sense, nothing does not exist. But to imply that it does not exist would imply that it is nothing. So, therefore nothing is nothing, which is true. Us humans, being both very stupid and yet incredibly smart, have no nothings. Perhaps nothing existed before the Big Bang, like I said, and perhaps nothing exists now, it's all a figment of our imagination (ah, but someone could say to that, "That's nothing!" to say that it doesn't mean anything, and is not true, but HOW WOULD THEY KNOW?) but that is perhaps unlikely. That thought still exists, though, because nothing can exist in thought, yet thought can exist in nothing. I think humans will still debate about nothing for millenniums, yet it will be a quiet debate; existing only in wandering minds, hoping to discover, or fathom nothing. But, if they were to fathom nothing, perhaps it would not be important, because, after all, it is "nothing".

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting.
I actually have a theory of nothing. I believe that nothing is actually matter. There is never nothing. There is always something. Nothing is actually the defined term atoms. It is the smallest piece. It cannot be broken into anything besides itself. I believe that two particles of nothing rammed together at an extraordinary speed. (Something a bit faster than the speed of light) This split the nothing apart, causing a nuclear explosion on an enormous scale, also known as the 'big bang'. Nothing created our universe. Um..all of this was discovered in my mind within 2 seconds before typing this.

Amelia said...

Wow. That was pretty cool. You should be a theorist.

Becca said...

I like the idea of a quiet debate. Because in the grand scheme of things, what does nothing matter. Is the answer to nothing nothing. And I love the ending. Wonderful fantabulus entry.