• What is nothing?
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Nothing is when you can no longer perceive in a way I suppose. So death?
[QUOTE=omarfr;43865831]Nothing is when you can no longer perceive in a way I suppose. So death?[/QUOTE] I could argue that death in itself is a phenomenon, and a natural process, that can be explained, observed, studied etc. Also I'd argue that this is a bit of a pointless debate.
[QUOTE]Also I'd argue that this is a bit of a pointless debate.[/QUOTE] What he/she said.
I'd call it a "something" that you cannot perceive with your five senses. EDIT: Even with the addition of equipment.
nothing is to the world like the cold is to thermodynmics, both don't exist but they describe a state of non-existence. when something is cold in thermodynamics it is actually lacking heat, the same is said for nothing, it is not a thing but the lacking of a thing

reposting from another thread [QUOTE]Inspired by memnoth, wooletang attempts to write about nothing. He is caught up in the idea of there being a thing so devoid of itself that it can be called nothing, and is surprised at the attempts to give a purpose to something without being. What could be called nothing, if by being no thing, there is a thing being named? Nothing is nothing but nothing, but nothing is only nothing if nothing is attributed to a place where something is expected to be. Nothing is nothing but a false idea, because there is nothing that is nothing without first being thought of to be something. By speaking of nothing, we create the idea of something, and therefore destroy nothing. If nothing is destroyed, how can nothing be nothing? For it to be destroyed, it first must have been something. Therein lies the problem with nothing. It does not exist. There is nothing that could possibly be nothing, and yet that in itself requires that there be something. It is a paradox.[/QUOTE]
It all depends really, our definition of nothingness is the lack of material. Though vaccuums would be the prime example. And to be fair that whole "vaccuums is nothing therefor it is something since you specify it as nothing" is kind of ignorant, why argue that it is something just because we named it.
Nothing is something that has a value so low, that it can be neglected
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