Nothing

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1. Nothing

Nothing is the absence of something.

Nothing is simply a concept, and not a reality.

Nothing only exists in the context of an action whereby something has been removed from somewhere.

You cannot make something out of nothing.

The universe was not created from nothing.

Therefore, in the context of human reality, there has never been nothing; there has always been something.

The Big Bang was created from something, by some entity (God, Creator, Source, Cosmic Consciousness) in the form of energy or something.

It is 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 reality.

That reality is composed of material and non-material, which combine to form the physical realm.

Material is matter that we can touch, see, macroscopic.

Non-material is microscopic, energy, seemingly invisible, but actually real and composed of atomic and / or quantum level matter.

Matter and energy are connected - E equals M times C squared.

Nothing is not part of the physical realm.

The physical realm is all that exists in the universe.

When we say "There is nothing it 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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2. An Answer

There is no answer to the human question: Why is there anything at all?

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. End of story.

For humanity to try to explain the origin of reality beyond this point is pointless, because 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, physical, extradimensional, spiritual, etc. etc. etc.

By nothing we here mean absolutely nothing, i.e., no physical reality, no ideas, no emotions, no dreams, no consciousness - fundamental or otherwise. If we vary our definition of nothing, to include something, then we are cheating. Yet, that is what some philosophers have chosen to do. Like removing the toys in the toy box to create nothing.

Nothing is perhaps the only unreality in existence, for there must always have been something. 

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3. References

Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, What is nothing?, Closer to the Truth, 24 June 2020, YouTube, duration: 26.46 minutes.

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Last updated: 14 July 2025

Michael Organ, Australia