I was once asked to define nothing.
I answered the question with another question
"When you shut your eyes, what do you see?"
The inquisitor shut their eyes and said ...
"Nothing."
"That’s not true.
You see the light from beyond your eyelids,
Flash images that our brain is constantly projecting to
your subconscious. That’s still something."
The inquisitor opened their eyes, unconvinced.
I continued.
"You’re in a dark room,
can’t even see your hands in front of your face,
What do you see?"
Again, the inquisitor answered
"Nothing."
"Ah but you see something.
You see darkness. You see an
absence of light. That’s still something."
I asked the inquisitor to look into a glass
etting on the table.
"What do you see."
Again, the inquisitor answered
"Nothing."
"Stick your fingers inside the glass, what do you
feel?"
Again, "Nothing"
"Hold it up to your nose, what do you smell?"
Again, "Nothing"
"Place it against the side of your head, what do you
hear?"
Again, "Nothing."
"You see the bottom of the glass, and feel space,
and smell air, and hear it all bouncing off the glass.
What you see, feel, smell, hear and taste
is not nothing. There’s still something."
In outer space, what’s behind you and the moon, the sun, and
the next galaxy?"
The inquisitor answered,
"Dust. Radiation. Space itself. So ‘nothing’ is
not definable,
it doesn’t exist!"
I answered the inquisitors question as best I could.
"To say ‘nothing’ does or doesn’t exist is to
give it a definition.
Thus making it something.
Nothing is nothing.
Because we can’t define it doens’t mean it doesn’t exist..."