What is nothingness?

We do not know, other than a vague mathematical definition that says it is a state represented by the 'negation' of all physical quantities and attributes. It is even less that a vacuum, which can still possess dimensionality and extension. Nothingness would have no extension, no structure, no time etc etc.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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