Nothingness - Is it imaginable?

I don't know. There are a lot of things we can't imagine. Our brain uses everything we've experienced to piece together things we imagine, but there are some things we just can't imagine because all of our experiences simply aren't enough to even begin to guess what it is. Think of colors we can never see - I think the idea of nothingness is interesting; I wonder what existed before the universe. Maybe that's the nothingness you're thinking of.

17 oct 2015.
Nothingness - is it imaginable? :
Lets be clear 'virtual' particles do not pop into existence and disappear from and into nothing. From Nothing - No Thing comes.

Nothingness: Lack of consequence; insignificance, lack of events, passage of time.
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You don't have to imagine it : You experience it every night as you sleep, it's that 'time' between dreams. (when your dead, that 'time' may last for eternity)
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All the best.
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"Nothingness" is in the imagination, but that is all. It can never be detected and can never be proven to exist.

Think what you are asking: "nothingness" has no mass, no energy, takes up no space, never changes with time, has no quantum states, no internal structure and does not interact with any of the forces. If it had any of these things it would not be "nothingness". Hence "nothingness" fundamentally can never be detected.

Now I am familiar with the fact that some people here are clearly psychic and brag about "knowing for sure, 100%" that certain sensationalistic things exist despite the fact that they have never been detected, but truly even they can surely see that the existence of "nothingness" by it's very definition is purely imaginary.

Cheers!

"Nothingness: Lack of consequence; insignificance, lack of events, passage of time."

all of these presuppose there must be "time" and "space" for "something" to exist

(an "event" presupposes time in which it occurs)

But the only reason we assume this is cos our universe, and everything in it, exists in both "time" and "space"

that is - we have no concept of how there could be anything without both - so our concept of "nothing" is the lack of both "time" and "space"

But just cos we cannot conceive it does not prove there cannot be some form of existence that has neither "time" nor "space"

Can I imagine "nothingness"? - not really - cos the only concept of "nothingness" I have can only apply inside our universe.- It becomes meaningless "outside"
(the term "outside" itself is meaningless- cos "outside" implies the existence of "space" where the "outside" exists. If that "space" does not exist then there cannot be an "outside" but there may be a completely different kind of existence to ours there
A better term would be "not-inside")

(all this may sound insane
but it only sounds that way cos we have a fixed concept of what we regard as "something", and what we regard as "nothing" when we have no reason to suppose those concepts apply "not-inside" our universe)

If nothing is defined as potential then its imagineable, but absolute nothing can not be measured directly ...

"Nothing" is literally a moment in time. You nor anyone else can see it and in the case of certain "Nothings," like Black Holes, there most certainly is time. It just doesn't change. Time is, but has no effect. If looking from an outside observer, what could you say about it? Could you say in what you perceive of time or nothing, that it is extension? Is it the start of something or the end? Where does nothingness enter into history or prehistory? What if someone could have special knowledge of what 'nothing' entails? What does it feel, beyond senses?

Very intriguing question because nothing is something.

Empty space actually IS something, and there are all kinds of things going in EVERY empty space, the gravity field for one thing. Empty space also has potential to be something, or a history, a location, a past and a future. Particles we can't see passing through, waves etc.
Nothingness has none of those or any qualities at all. It is not imaginable, because of the very act it is then something. Nothingness can not be approached or experienced by anything on our perception or reality.
It is an abstract concept simple enough to conceive but of no real use, it cannot be used, kind of like infinite in mathematics, however while infinite is an abstract concept within the abstract tool of mathematics so exists; nothingness is an abstraction of the tangible world describing the natural world and therefore does not exist, the same way infinite exists only in mathematics and nowhere in the real world.
Hope that helps!

Hello Rusky, I don't think of nothingness as something imaginable, because if you believe in the theory of parallel universes where our universe exploded into existence with its own physical properties for matter to exist due to the collision of two or more different realities where the space between them before the collision can be described as nothingness? Like infinity, there no such thing as nothingness or empty darkness, even darkness is made of something! My mind boggles, Lol!

Philosophical Answer (consider re-posting in Humanities/Philosophy) : I don't see why "nothingness" is any less imaginable than "somethingness". You can imagine a person in a room, and you can imagine an empty room - even when the person is still in front of you.

Scientific Answer : Nothingness is not a scientific concept. Since you've chosen (or by default been given) the category of "astronomy and space" then I presume when you ask "is nothingness imaginable?" you really mean "is empty space really empty?" That question has already been answered by Quantum Physics : even "empty" space is a seething cauldron of "virtual" particles and their anti-particles which pop into and out of existence in a fraction of a second. This effect is responsible for Black Hole (Hawking) Radiation.

Nothingness plus energy equals matter space and time!

No! I can,t say no even,butch I went out some where say I am hiding me from naught,That because of her.

Just Remove the sense of yourself. then you becomes that. i mean of anything and everything.

Clearly, you have trouble understanding "things which are" and "things which are not".

Nothing is that which is not. There is no "something" until that somethign comes into existence accodring to E=MC^2.

LIGHT "is". Darkness is the ABSENCE of light. Darkness is not.