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Where can I round up enough nothing for an in-depth study.

Asked by ETpro (34605points) July 14th, 2013

I’ve been reading the fascinating book from theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss.Krauss, _A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. I’ve always found nothing utterly fascinating, but reading this book has compounded that interest in nothing?.

At first blush, it might seem that nothing could be easier than finding nothing, and lots of it. But nothing could be further from the truth. Even though nothing is expanding, and will eventually expand so fast that everything outside our local cluster of galaxies will be receding away from us at apparent superluminal speeds, it’s hard to nail nothing down. How do I study nothing, and the inherent energy in it? How can I become a certified expert on nothing? Can nobody test me to see that I’ve reached a new plateau in the understanding of nothing?

It’s clear to me that nothing is far more interesting than most somethings. Could it be that nothing else is as interesting as nothing?

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