Nothing is everything.

[reverendjeremiah]

Okay, fine..you want a SERIOUS answer from me. Then the answer is "NO, nothing is not everything"

I will go so far as to say nothing is 99% or so of the universe. You can look up in the night sky and see that much, even without knowing relativity or basic Quantum Mechanics.

But that 1% or so of "SOMETHING" makes a big difference.

If the Topic was titled "Damn near eveything is nothing", then I would agree.

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Grammatically, the word "nothing" is an indefinite pronoun, which means that it refers to something. One might argue that "nothing" is a concept, and since concepts are things, the concept of "nothing" itself is a thing. This logical fallacy is neatly demonstrated by the joke syllogism that contains a fallacy of four terms:

1.Nothing is beyond the Universe.
2.Average Joe is beyond nothing .
3.Therefore Average Joe is beyond the Universe.
The four terms in this example are

Average Joe,
The Universe,
Nothing-as-a-thing, which a Average Joe is beyond than, and
Nothing-as-an-absence-of-a-thing: 'no-thing' or 'not-some-thing', i.e., no entity exists that is beyond The Universe.
The error in the conclusion stems from equating nothing-as-a-thing with nothing-as-absence-of-a-thing, which is invalid logic.