NOTHING
What is nothing? Without dealing with Mathematical and Philosophical difficulties, I want to look at our everyday experiences for an answer.
If we ask people, I'm sure we'll get some answers identical to the dictionary definition: 'no thing', 'something that is nonexistent', 'nonexistence', 'nothingness', or 'something that is without quantity or magnitude'. There's nothing wrong with that definition, which is basically what most of us think.
The thing that I take issues with is the notion to ascribe property to this word in the physical sense. It seems to me that some still view 'nothing' as an entity. I prefer a definition that eliminates any assertion to 'nothing' as an entity. I view 'nothing' as a sort of property describing the non-existence of something. It describes a quality of something, instead of it being something to be described. A nothing universe refers to the impossibility of the universe to exist. In the case of our universe, we can say that it's NOT a nothing universe. It exists.
When we talk about our reality, we have to distinguish between what we can experience and what we can't. We need a term like 'nothing' to make this differentiation concise. I also prefer a view that doesn't refer to 'nothing' as something that does not exists in our reality. I think that it's logically incorrect to ask what a nothing universe is. It's like holding a court case on a crime that never happened.
I think that a nothing universe is not a 'negative' universe. A negative universe is a universe made up of counter-behaving matter, i.e matter and anti-matter. Interactions between particles and anti-particles are commonly created in modern physics laboratories.
I also think that a nothing universe is not an existence outside our universe, but it defines our universe's inability to non-exist. It's not something that can be inferred as nonexistence, but rather it's a qualitative description of our universe to exist as it is. Our universe exists, therefore it's NOT a nothing universe.
Can there be a nothing universe? I think that's a meaningless question, because the 'nothing' universe refers to the universe itself. If our universe was a nothing universe, I won't be
talking about it.
Multiverse?
An article published in the September 2007 issue of the research journal Physical Review D., mentioned three scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who've suggested a radical idea on the possibility that a neighboring universe might have left a visible mark on our universe that's detectable. How that is done is not known. I don't believe that there are multiple universes. I can say that, can't I? It's my right.
At an earlier time, the common notion was that the universe is made of some basic and distinct elemental constituents - Earth, Water, Air, and Fire (with Metal and Ether in Chinese and Indian cultures.). Now we know that these elements are related in a very fundamental way.
In a similar respect, the ideas that some people are proposing to explain reality as a collection of disassociated entities could be a result of our limited knowledge. In the end, I think, we'll find out that these disperse ideas are all related and are parts of the only universe or existence there is.
Until next time...
