This thread is about nothing.

[Razor]

Although I am late to the party, Grandy was wrong.
I forget what else I wanted to say.

[Archem]

You were proclaimed the Charas God, I refuted saying Alex was our god, then Father Lucas came in and reminded us all that Square Dood is our true saviour

It was all very exciting

So I was God for five minutes?

Neat.

[arcaine91]

if it's any consolation, you WERE named the Charas Kratos.

[Emerates]

What is nothing? Some say that over 99% of the univers is composed of nothing, like the vacuum in the space, but isn't vacuum by itself something? If, as an example, we make a ball of vacuum inside an air-filled room, wouldn't it be better to say it's a ball of something made out of nothing inside something which is so common it could be classified as nothing?

 One could say that the very fact that something fails to be something makes it different of the rest, thus making it something instead of making it nothing.

 Discuss.


 Coming next: This thread is about everything. Stay tuned.

According to Taoism:

"What is, is.  What is not, also is."  Therefore, nothing is something, which means that there is no nothing, even though there is.  Plus, one must consider energy.  Does it not permeate nothing and also everything?  Matter is nothing, even though it's something; energy is something, because it is, and also because I said so.

Also, atoms are mostly empty space anyways, but the space in them is still considered a part of their atomic structure.  Electron fields and ****, man.

[drenrin2120]

If you have absolutely no heat, no energy, you have nothing. If there's a giant void in space somewhere between some crazy galaxies and there happens to be no molecules, atoms, matters, nothing... Just because you can see the black void and empty space in which something could occupy doesn't make the black void anything more than what it is, and it is nothing. You could argue, "well, it is something because clearly we give it a name." And I'd agree, nothing is something, but it's still nothing. Just because we give nothing a name doesn't make it something... Isn't zero not even technically a real number? Just a placeholder for nothing, something humans had to create to understand the absence of an amount. Think about it, zero's the only number with specific privileges

damn, talk about doing loops.

It's interesting to think that numbers have an "Absolute Zero" in the sense that there is nothing, but you can have as large a number as you want. In the same kind of way, heat has no limit, but it can only get so cold... So does cold really exist? Or is it a human fabrication?

[Emerates]

Cold's just a reference point for when the temperature drops below a point that we are comfortable with.  In the north, 'cold' is probably considered below 30 degrees F, because they're used to it.  However, a Viet Cong veteran probably finds anywhere below 60 degrees F cold, since it's so hot and humid in Vietnam.  Cold is a circumstantial term, temperature is not.  So, I suppose cold only really exists in the sense that it is a level of temperature that we don't like.

[Drace]

Fahrenheit ftl. Learn to use celcius, it's more ownage than that weird Fahrenheit and more adaptle to that third one I forgot the name of.

[Dragonium]

Real men use the Kelvin scale.

[Drace]

Real men use the Kelvin scale.

That's the one I forgot. Kelvin. I prefer using both Kelvin and Celcius. Celcius for every day and Kelvin for science.

[Grandy]

Hey Drace. >:C

This thread is about nothing. >:C

You're discussing scales. >:C

DO YOU WANT THIS TO BE LOCKED?! >:CCC

[Moosetroop11]

The only spam I see here is the 'this thread's going off topic' gags :p Don't turn this into another argument about that... Not when the thread's actually brought about some genuine conversation.

The Kelvin scale's kinda cool, provided that scientists are right about all movement in particles stopping at a certain temperature. The big problem is that because we can't achieve 0K, it's all theory and stuff.

[Grandy]

I aways wondered if it would be possible to get so cold, the particles stoped moving, and then started moving backwards

 I know, makes no sense at all, but so does quantun physics.

[Drace]

I aways wondered if it would be possible to get so cold, the particles stoped moving, and then started moving backwards

 I know, makes no sense at all, but so does quantun physics.

Well if that is possible, we can get immortality! Just freeze yourself in till you start moving backwards till when you're young again and defreeze. That theory and the jellyfish shall grant me eternal life!

[Ben]

nope. unless everything newton discovered was wrong...which, believe me, ive seen with my own eyes, is not wrong.

[Dragonium]

I aways wondered if it would be possible to get so cold, the particles stoped moving, and then started moving backwards

I know, makes no sense at all, but so does quantun physics.

When you're in your car and you slam on the brakes and hold them on, you don't go backwards after you stop.

And as Jim's already said, you can't hit absolute zero.