"Nothing" doesn't exist. Instead, there's "quantum foam" - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/nothing-exist-quantum-foam/
@tmbrown327 OK, but what is there around these particles that blink into existence?
seems to me that they operate in nothing also known as empty space!
Am I right or wrong? Thanks
@Helveticus At the scales they're looking at, analogies break down pretty quick. If 'nothing' is actually just a point in space that is about to be something else, is it empty? And if just looking at it changes whether is is or is not, can anything be nothing?
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@tmbrown327 I understand but, don't we need nothingness in order to define 'somethingness'?
@Helveticus Maybe *we* need this kind of allegorical mechanism, but the underlying reality does not, apparently.