Nothing
By: Andy (morphus255)
It has come to my attention that there is some controversy about what exactly nothing is. As part of my continuous struggle for knowledge I have spent a countless amount of time, about forty minutes, researching this topic and have come to the conclusion that the world may never know exactly what nothing is. This discovery was made shortly after nearly solving the question, what is nothing?
In my quest I have learned many things about nothing and will try to explain them. The first thing I learned is that nothing is the opposite of something. This is important because it establishes a relationship with anything, everything, several things, a few things, many things, and a lot of things. To better my understanding I looked into these relationships. I discovered that something can be anything and anything can be something. This means that the words anything and something can be interchanged, which means, that nothing is the opposite of anything because of the relationship that states that nothing and something are opposites.
General knowledge states that a lot of things is many many things, also, many things is a few a few things, and finally a few things is several several things. Along this same route everything is a lot of a lot of things. This means that everything is a bunch of several things, which means that everything is the extreme amount of things. This proves two things, one is that nothing is the opposite of everything, a lot of things, many things, a few things, several things, anything, something, and thing (which is the hand on "The Adams Family" but that really isn't important), and the other thing it proves is that there must be different degrees of nothingness because there are different degrees of things.
This hunch of there being different degrees of nothing proved to be true. There appear to be five different degrees of nothingness. The first is nothing; this is the most basic degree of nothingness and is the direct opposite of something. The next degree of nothingness is absolutely nothing. I feel that there is a spectrum of nothingness that has nothing at one end and absolutely nothing at the other end. This means that absolutely nothing has to be the direct opposite of everything. That is all for the direct opposites however there are still three degrees of nothingness to discuss these include nothing much, nothing important, and practically nothing. I have researched these degrees and to shorten this re port will just say that the spectrum of nothingness is as follows starting with the smallest degree of nothingness: nothing, practically nothing, nothing much, nothing important, and absolutely nothing.
This has intrigued me even more, so I went to the ever-trustworthy dictionary. To verify the truthfulness of the definition I used various versions of the Webster's dictionary. This in fact proved to be conclusive and backed up my hypothesis, indeed nothing is a word. At this point it looked like the end. Then it dawned on me that a word is something and nothing is a word therefore nothing is something and this just can't be (see "Nothing", this report, paragraph two). It is this that causes the problem.
My research has led me to one major discovery. I learned that nothing is the opposite of something while at the same time it is something. This leads me to believe that nothing is either the secret of life or what makes the world go around. Either way I feel that somewhere someone is keeping something, namely nothing, from everyone.