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Asked by Oscar Willmott to ☣ Danna, Lindsay, Juan, Jonny, Daniela ? on 15 Jun 2016.
Question: Hi this is Oscar again and I would like to know a about "nothingness" I know not many of you are astrophysicist and i will accept that answers will be varied... So my question is "what is nothingness and where is it what color and if I was there what would happen?, thank you yours thankfully Oscar
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Jonathan Hunter answered on 15 Jun 2016:
Hi Oscar,
Sorry but this way out of my field. By nothingness do you mean a vacuum or are you talking about dark matter?
As a vacuum is an absence of particles, but electromagnetic radiation can pass through it, a vacuum can be any colour.
If you mean dark matter, then I don’t think it has a colour because it absorbs all types of radiation (making it hard to see and prove exists).
If your were in a vacuum a few things would probably happen. If you were in the vacuum of space you you would freeze and your blood/ any body liquid would boil. This would probably cause your body to explode, in short I think you would die.
I hope that answers your questions!
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Danna Gifford answered on 16 Jun 2016:
Hi Oscar,
I am sorry, I don’t have a good answer on this one. I think as a human that evolved in a “many-ness” world, the idea of true “nothingness” is very difficult to grasp.If you’ve heard of set theory in mathematics, you may have heard of the empty set, which is a set that contains no things in it. The properties of the empty set are undefined, that is anything you can use to describe a set in set theory, the empty set is both “that” and “not that”. So if I were to extend this to the idea of nothingness, I would say that “nothingness” is both everywhere and nowhere, every colour of the rainbow and no colour, and if you were there, everything and nothing would happen to you.
But these are just the random musings of a biologist…
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