Is It Possible For Something To Come From Nothing?

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If we were to look at from the perspective of the vacuum of space, space is anything but empty. Lots of people think the big bang was an explosion of matter into space when the prevailing science says it was a rapid expansion of space itself. If we want to look at nothing, we may need to go back in time to before the big bang. Maybe nothing is what sows the seeds to enable something to occur.

The Scenario I Am Imagining

The thing I'm thinking of is that we have a box, let's say one meter cubed for example's sake, which has walls that are impermeable to everything, even gravity waves. Somehow we remove all the atoms from inside that box and even manage to suppress the production of particle/antiparticle pairs inside the box as well. I think the contents of that box would be as close to being 'nothing' as could be. However, could you define that nothingness as something?

According to Google

Something is:

1 -a thing that is unspecified or unknown.

2 - used in various expressions indicating that a description or amount being stated is not exact.

As you can see it is defined as something unknown and that is unspecified so if we are well aware of the contents of the box that would be nothing right? It is pretty confusing to think about, but I guess this is one of the problems with the definition.

Thoughts

However if you think about it talking about terms like these is meaningless, except to show where our reason fails to draw any significant conclusions.

Both nothing and something exists due to the fact they are opposites and contrasts of each other. Life and death, one exists for the other to make sense. Perception exists to contrast no-perception. We live in a world of duality which makes thing harder to explain something when a condition is possible to one or the other at the same time.

Where or not "nothing is something" depends very much on the precise meaning attached to each word. Depending on the definitions chosen, the statement 'nothing is something' can be true or false. I guess this grey area is where most of our logic and reasoning goes down the drain.

The state of nothingness is a kind of meta-paradox. On the one hand, it's completely vacant of information and binding ontological constraint, while on the other hand doesn't even have a true nature that one could implicate in a meaningful contradiction for that very reason. Nothingness could just be nonexistence in some cases. It's so empty of information that it breaks down into two structural levels, one of them being a reality.

Let Me Know What You Think!