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Aug 28, 2003 · Nothingness. First published Thu Aug 28, 2003; substantive revision Mon Feb 28, 2022. Since metaphysics is the study of what exists, one might expect metaphysicians to have little to say about the limit case in which nothing exists. But around the fifth century BCE in China, India, and Greece, philosophers turned from what is, to what is not ...
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- Zeno's Paradoxes
Jul 26, 2023 · And in typical physics style, what we do is we hide it under the rug until we have something better, something better to say. And that’s because, in the context of quantum field theory — what I mean by that is, before we introduced gravity into the description of nature — in the context of quantum field theory we cannot actually measure the absolute value of the energy of the vacuum.
Zen Buddhism explains that true nothingness is absolute, not relative—beyond the realm of things. Our earlier attempts at elucidating Nothing and no-thing were very much conceptually related to things, and so to get a truer, more absolute nothingness, we must go beyond no-thing/thing and no-thing/Nothing.
Aug 16, 2011 · And so we try to answer it scientifically.In order to do that, we want to start with a scientific definition of nothing.In our nearby Universe, nothing is hard to come by. We are surrounded by ...
Only because there is a world filled with Being can we imagine a dull and empty one. Nothingness arises from Somethingness, then: without being to compare it to, nothingness has no existence. Once again, pure nothingness has shown itself to be negation. A world where there is nothing is just an empty shell, you might reply; but the shell itself ...
Sep 30, 2015 · Nothingness is the state of nonexistence, or the absence of anything. Although that explanation seems simple, its concept had troubled physicists and philosophers over the ages. When I was in college many decades ago, I used to contemplate thoughts of infinity and the results of dividing by zero. My physics professor told me not to think about ...
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Aug 9, 2022 · An instability in the vacuum of space could suddenly spawn a rapidly expanding bubble with no interior — true nothingness. Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine. Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier ...
