How do you describe nothing?

to describe nothing? i’m not sure… “nothing, it is an empty space of emptiness that is no space at all.” that’s your best bet. haha

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Ahh, but some thought says that nothing isn’t nothing because nothing is the absence of something.
oh no, my brain, she just esploded

I don’t.

I’m not sure I have any idea what you’re talking about.

What do you mean, “words wouldn’t exist”? You mean they wouldn’t exist if there were nothing?
If that’s the case, would there even exist anyone who could wonder how to describe it if there were nothing?

In this situation, however, where I do exist and I can use words, I’d describe “nothing” as “utter absence”.

College kid’s Refrigerator?

I personally describe nothing as the absence of something. However, upon reading something like The Neverending Story for example, I find it hard to grasp the concept of “The Nothing” that is sweeping across Fantasia… so yeah… it’s hard… I just leave it haha.

Black hole :-)

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@mattbrowne
Formal logic to the rescue. :D

empty

non-existence

Nothing is an impossibility. There is always something. Therefore, no need to describe nothing, since there is nothing to describe!

This question sounded like a good idea at 5 A.M.

You feel like nothing when you want to be noticed or picked out of a crowd by that one special boy and he’s walking toward you and you are feeling all excited and nervous and he smiles and…and…he’s close and here he is! And he starts talking to the pretty girl next to you.

@rangerr: It is good at 5 AM. If you think about it really hard, your thoughts just go around in circles and eventually you fall asleep. It’s as good as counting sheep.

Well, it looks kind of like a three-dollar bill, feels a little like a opossum wing, smells like snake’s milk cheese, and sounds like a roomful of honest politicians. I’ve never tasted it, so I can’t say

College kid’s refrigerator doesn’t work. They’ve got beer in there.

Briefly, I would think.

@Harp
That’s good, because if you eat it, you’ll die.

Smelling it kind of killed my appetite.

haha, i was just talking about this in another discussion.. this may not be the same context for “nothing” as you intended but I believe “Nothing” = Everything as we know it.

but perhaps in conversation, “nothing” = “the absence of everything contextually significant.”

for(int i=0 ; i<=0 ; i++)
{
// Nothing
}

^ see.. even in this loop everything that is meant to be accomplished gets accomplished.. so in a sense, nothing = everything intended.

Nothing++;
break;
exit(1);

I once read some popular science book that tried to explain that there are different degrees of nothingness. It was saying that outer space is far from empty. To be honest, I found the whole discussion to be a bit mind boggling.

If we define nothing as the empty set then Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica constructs arithmetic quite literally out of nothing. Zero (or maybe it is one) is taken to be the empty set. The set that contains the empty set is the next number and so on. It is all very much ado about nothing.