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Old 08-11-2008, 01:44 PM
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Lets talk about nothing..

Folk use the term ...nothing...easily without any contemplation of the implications of the word ..indeed who can entertain the concept that we call nothing.

We have nothing left in the biscuit tin and nothing left in the tank..but in truth there is always something..in the tin and in the tank there still is something..if only air...but there would be dust and fumes respectively to mention a few of the remnants of each vessel.

Bojan replied recently to my question (in science section) which I asked somewhat with tounge in cheek ...

"what is on the other side of everything (meaning the universe)"

and he replied...."Nothing"

and most of us being humans and knowing what the word means are happy having formed a view of an absence of everything..I get a mind picture of the universe sitting as a glowing sphere in a sea of nothing... but how can there be nothing I wonder..

What happens at the boundry of the Universe at the fence line between the universe and the stuff we would describe as ......nothing...Do photons from the very first moment of creation (in the big bang sence) bounce up against the fence of the universe and not pass out into nothing?

Does the cosmic background radiation reach a point where it runs into the boundary fence between the universe and nothing and get turned back.

AND most of all if there be nothing can it have dimention...after all it is nothing so one wonders how any of our four popular dimentions can be used to describe it... if there is nothing there is nothing to be measured...not lenght or depth.... not even time..one could speculate such is so...if so one may ask well how wide is this nothing on the outside and how old is it?

Does the universe float in a sea of nothing ... if there is a single photon passing thru I suspect that region could then not be called nothing...so to be nothing it can contain not a single particle or pulse of energy...

So what are your thoughts on nothing or is nothing really always a very small bit of something.

alex
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