Sandelin 1Zachary SandelinMs. PetersenEnglish II, Period EMarch 11, 2014What is “Nothing”?What is nothing? A bold question, indeed. How do you define something that doesn't exist? One could look on the optimistic side and provide a description such as "Oh, nothing is the absence of matter, a space in the universe waiting for matter to fill it." Or, one could also look at the pessimistic side of the question and provide an answer such as "God, Mom, nothing is what I feel when I listen to my punk-rock boy bands and write in my newspaper. » This article plans to explore the physical side of nothing, the philosophical section of nothing, and the weird side of the "long lost cousin that no one really talks about anymore" of the nothing family, AKA "Quantum Mechanics". . Resources used to collect information include the Scary Jungle and "Please have your parents' permission before going online", known as "the Internet". But the use of electronic means of gathering information was not the only resource used; it also included long-lost relics, called “books” according to my English teacher. But more seriously, they also included ancient manuscripts, primarily based on the philosophies of Aristotle and Parmendias regarding “nothing.” Not emotionally though, but legitimately about the total lack of material in a given area. I hope my stupid jokes haven't scared you yet, let's get started, shall we? I'll start by talking about the philosophical side of nothing. When I say “nothing,” what is your imagination calculating? Are you considering an empty clean room? Can you imagine nothing but black? …. Go ahead, I'll give you a minute. Well it looks like the time is over, now I want you to take your idea that nothing... middle of paper... an ethical branch of the Big Bang states that the universe is in a constant cycle d implosion. and explodes. This borrows largely from the unproven "Big Crunch" theory that the universe will eventually shrink and implode on itself, which will then explode again. It's literally a never-ending cycle of galactic trauma and violence. Our brains are unable to calculate the magnitude of such an event, so we chase away those uncomfortable feelings of the unknown and sugarcoat these events with stories of gods and “larger-than-life” beings. These tales generally follow the simple model of a God creating everything from nothing, which is extremely simple, and our brains are comfortable calculating a basic story. The Hindu belief that Vishna the Preserver creates the universe from a lotus flower is a slightly more complex version of this scenario..