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Danger · #1 04-02-08, 11:10 AM

This might be the ultimate debate, and honestly, its confusing. I was searching for topic since I couldn't come up with anything and this is intriguing. I never ever thought about it, but now its quite clear why its a debate topic.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Some examples.

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In mathematics, zero is not nothing; it is a number, which can be added, subtracted, multipled, and divided into but not by. It is the identity for addition and multiplication, and it is a placeholder in Hindu-Arabic Place-Value system. The empty set is a better contender for nothing, and the empty set might actually be empty, and contain nothing, but in creating a set containing nothing, we have created something.

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Let your mind go blank. Think of Nothing. How can you? When you think of nothing, you need somewhere to put it, it will have a form, a shape, even if it appears shape-less. It is something, even if it is a hole in something else.

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In science, the vaccuum of space is not empty; at the large scale, it is space contorted by gravitational fields, on the small scale it is quantum foam. Things pop in and out of existence, virtual pairs of particles are created and annhilated. Empty space it is not.

Now think about it. Is there really such a thing as nothing? I know, it hurts the brain.

Hatchet · #2 04-02-08, 01:04 PM

In my opinion..Everything is nothing. And nothing is everything. I have this crazy theory that everything in the universe is one. Connected. So...if I look at this debate from that point of view, I would say there is nothing but everything.

What holds the atoms in place? What is the spark of energy that gives form to life? Nothing. But it's everything at the same time.

I'm not sure if this is what you were going for or not...

..Seinfeld was about nothing.