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To: hosepipe
Thank you for your question!

Got a question.. If space is null, empty.. then what is it.. it has to be something.. even nothing is something.. What is it?.. How can empty space be nothing at all.?. maybe its the same stuff thats between "atoms".?. That is if there even a thing called atoms..

Empty space is not null - nor is it empty. It has geometry and it is a vacuum. Moreover, virtual particles come into and out of existence in a vacuum.

Empty space is like a quantitative field in a fixed length record which contains a zero. Void would be if the field did not exist at all.

The thing to remember is that space/time is created as the universe expands. It doesn't pre-exist. Space/time doesn't expand "into" anything.

The condition which exists before the beginning of space/time (regardless of cosmology) is the void.

1,028 posted on 01/07/2006 10:53:32 PM PST by Alamo-Girl (Monthly is the best way to donate to Free Republic!)
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To: Alamo-Girl
[ Empty space is not null - nor is it empty. It has geometry and it is a vacuum. Moreover, virtual particles come into and out of existence in a vacuum. ]

Alrighty then, now stop that.. Empty space is WHAT?..
An empty jar on earth has air in it..
What does that empty jar in space with the lid on, have in it?..
If you say nothing.. How can that be..? How can there be nothin?..

Maybe I'm having trouble concieveing of nothing..
nothing would still to be something.. d;-S

1,029 posted on 01/07/2006 11:28:03 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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