marbor22,
....10 personal descriptions of "nothing" to start with would be welcomed too. Just so I can get a taste.
When coming up with a hypothesis of some kind one must use the same words with the same understandings everybody else has for those words. So in this case you asked for "personal descriptions." If you want to use the word nothing you need to know the standard meaning of the word and not deal with personal descriptions. This is what the dictionary says:
"Nothing is a pronoun denoting the absence of anything." This is a standard English definition more relating to philosophy than to physics.
Nothing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is nowhere within the universe where we are aware that there is a volume of 'nothing,' or nothingness. Instead when we evacuate all matter away from a volume we end up with an entity called the Zero Point Field. There is, however, thought to be more energy in the Zero Point Field than there is in all the rest of mass and energy in the universe combined. So the Zero Point Field collectively could be considered the farthest thing away from nothing that is possible.
So if you wish to stick with observed reality you might consider that the state of "nothingness" may not exist anywhere within the known universe.
Stephen Hawking in his last book "The Grand Design" discussed the creation of the universe from nothing. Instead what he was talking about was the creation of the Universe from the Zero Point Field, which is known to contain Zero Point Energy -- which technically is certainly not "nothing" in the dictionary sense of the word that I provided.
This general idea/ definition of "nothing" is what Hawking was using for his proposal. The standard definition of the Zero Point Field is: "In quantum field theory, the vacuum state (also called the vacuum) is the quantum state with the lowest possible energy. Generally, it contains no physical particles.
So now you have two definitions of "nothing" to work with. One definition is
the total "absence of anything." And another definition could equate "nothing" with the Zero Point Field (ZPF) which hypothetically might include as part of its definition "
the total absence of all matter and wave energy."
Coming from ancient Greek philosophy and later becoming a Roman saying, comes the axiom, "from nothing, nothing comes," or simply something cannot come from nothing." I think to deal with this question you are more addressing philosophy than science as you have suggested.
OK, now what are going to do with these definitions? Good luck
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Originally Posted by marbor22
I may have at sometime given an ignorant answer when I thought my answer was correct. But I expect this rarely has happened. I only comment on subjects that I feel I am generally very knowledgeable about and well versed. In most science subjects I feel that I am far more educated than most others commenting on the subject. False dishonesty allegations are easy to make. I think that most that engage in such stupidity, mostly cannot understand the arguments involved, and think they must resort to false or imagined allegations to keep from losing face when confronted concerning their statements.
