Thinking about things is a Science of the mind.

[oneighty]

Is thinking about things a Science?

If one questions the concept of "Nothing" is that a Science?

One might think how can there be "Nothing"? If one can not see it, taste it, feel it, hear it or smell it does that prove it is "Nothing".

How can "Nothing" exist?

Why do I ask this? Because I am thinking. Just so.

I think therefore I am?

Now I will go take my medicine.

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[politicaholic]

1. Thinking is a "process". The factors that allow you to think is science.

The whole "nothing" nonsense I'll leave to the arm chair philosophers.

[oneighty]

3. Why is nothing nonsense?

Don't physicists worry over nothing? Isn't dark (black) matter sort of an explanation or at least a speculation of "nothing" between the stars?

And what is wrong with armchair philosophers?

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[pmbryant]

4. Dark matter isn't nothing

It's just dark. In other words, not detected by telescopes. But it's definitely something, since it has mass.

I'm not sure there is a physcial meaning, at least in present understanding, to "nothing". Even empty space, at the quantum level, is a frenzy of virtual particles popping into existence briefly.

[oneighty]

5. Thank you

I just did some inter-net reading (Satre) as suggested and some more reading concerning dark matter. It is all fascinating and certainly thought provoking--the point of my post.

The state of "Nothing" is interesting. As is the mysterious binding energy (more nothing?) released during fission and fusion.

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[ret5hd]

2. Read "Being and Nothingness" by Sarte...

admittedly not science, but mind blowing (or numbing) to the extreme.