Nothing
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Contents
- Nothing?
- Answer
- References
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1. What is Nothing?
Nothing is the absence of something.
Nothing is simply a concept, and not a reality, which would negate it by making it something.
Nothing only exists in the context of an action whereby something has been removed from somewhere or has never existed.
You cannot make something out of nothing.
The universe was not created from nothing; it was created from something.
Therefore, in the context of human reality, there has never been nothing; there has always been something.
The Big Bang, for example, was created from something.
The creation of something usually involves a creator, or creative source, e.g. God, Creator, Source, Cosmic Consciousness.
The something of creation is usually in the form of energy or material.
Something is therefore composed of the physical reality and nothing else.
Therefore, nothing does not exist in the universe.
There was always something there, and that something is what we refer to as the physical realm or physical reality.
Nothing else exists beyond this.
That physical reality or realm is composed of (1) material and (2) non-material.
Material is usually matter that we can touch, see, and is macroscopic.
Non-material is microscopic, atomic or quantum, such as energy and seemingly invisible, but actually real and composed of matter.
Matter and energy are connected - E equals M times C squared.
Nothing is therefore not part of the physical realm.
The physical realm is all that exists in the universe.
When we say "There is nothing in that box of toys", it is true in so far as we have taken all of the toys out of the box. Therefore the statement should actually say "There is nothing LEFT in that box of toys."
Nothing does not exist.
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The mystery of existence, Closer to the Truth, 4 September 2020.
2. An Answer
There is no answer to the human question: Why is there something, rather than nothing? Why is there anything at all? (Leslie and Kuhn 2013)
There is, however, a possible scenario which can be presented to explain the existence of the universe in which human kind is present.
That scenario is basically: The universe was created by an entity - God, Creator, Source, Cosmic Consciousness - and the origin of that entity, or those entities, is unknown and unknowable in the human context.
For humanity to try to explain the origin of reality beyond a point of origin is pointless.
Our minds cannot accept the premise that something can be created out of nothing, where nothing is the absence of anything - material or non-material, extradimensional or spiritual.
By nothing we here mean absolutely nothing, i.e., no physical reality, no ideas, no emotions, no dreams, no consciousness - fundamental or otherwise.
Degrees of nothing are proposed to facilitate understanding of nothing (Kuhn 2020).
If we vary our definition of nothing to include something, then we are cheating. Yet, that is what some philosophers and scientists have chosen to do.
A good example is the removal of the toys from toy box to create nothing; or to deny the existence of something which once existed, such that "There is nothing to see here."
Nothing is the only unreality in existence, for there must always have been something if there is existence.
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3. References
How did the universe start from nothing?, Beyond Horizons, 13 September 2024, YouTube, duration: 116.29 minutes.
Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, What is nothing?, Closer to the Truth, 24 June 2020, YouTube, duration: 26.46 minutes.
Leslie, John and Robert Lawrence Kuhn (editors), The Mystery of Existence: Why is there anything at all?, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 336p.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, Being and Nothingness, Editions Gallimard, Philosophical Library, 1943.
The philosophy of "nothing" explained: Exploring the concept of nothingness, Ramble & Ruminate, 22 October 2024, YouTube, duration: 10.55 minutes.
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Last updated: 14 July 2025
Michael Organ, Australia
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