When You Got Nothing--You Got Nothing

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     Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's a giant expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.(AP)

There is nothing more to be discovered about nothing! 

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void"

      This is far too complicated and confusing to even consider on a Sunday Morning after a lifetime of being consciously focused on something as opposed to nothing. But, I will ask the question anyway and hope out there in the internet anti-void some brilliant person will enlighten me.

          "If you can perceive it as something, HOW CAN IT BE NOTHING?"

     "What is not, is not".  Our language is so object
oriented that it cannot describe what is meant by the statement "What
is not, is not" in any other way than by not saying it, since "what"
already implies an object and "not" is the negation of either something
existing or of negating the action of something existing.If I can identify 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness it must be something or otherwise I could not even know it is there. Just because the something astronomers perceived could not be labled round, square, or any other shape within a shape they call it "nothing." But to my "Sunday Morning Coming Down" mind that makes the nothing into something just labled as "void, emptiness, and nothing."

     I am certain on this particular morning if I keep following this line of thought I will cease to exist. I will be nothing and you will be nothing and all will be emptiness. Of course this is not my first trip into the primordial ooze. Since a child the God-speaking of Genesis 1:1 has haunted the recesses of my mind. How can something be created from nothing? (Flashback to the great mind expansion of the sixties) "Be Here Now" and enter the formless void which contains the all of consciousness. On second thought let's see if we can bring something sensible out of this great discovery of nothingness which can not possibly be actually nothing!

      This discovery of a million, trillion miles of nothing is a perfect example of our own stupidity and just how little we know about our own existence and purpose. It is a perfect example of the current level of ignorance of humanity and science. These guys in Minnesota just used a million dollars of time and equipment to find what?? You got it! NOTHING! Now that we know a vast expanse of nothing exist out there somewhere I am sure we can all rest better and be more enlightened and productive citizens. As for me and Bob Dylan---"When you got nothin, ya got nothin to lose."

     I would love to read your comments on "nothing." Because there is so much room in nothing for something. But if we fill up the nothing with something it wont be a nothing anymore.