Emptiness and Existence

George Bothamley
2 min readJul 3, 2021

In physics, a vacuum is essentially a void.

I.e space where there is no matter.

Emptiness.

And emptiness naturally suggests a state of nothingness. Because, of course, if there is “something” there — the space is not empty.

Only by there being “nothing” there can we truly say that something is empty.

And yet, the fact that a vacuum exists at all —or that we can actually observe / measure it in all manner of ways from space experiments to the incandescent lightbulbs . . . means that it

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