• Question: Hi, Is the gap between stars nothing because there are not atoms? Because you can physically see the blackness so it can't be nothing or is 'nothing' a concept which can't be seen or even thought about...so surely it is nothing..does that mean blackness is nothing?

    Asked by LilyMarie to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Sarwat Iqbal

      Sarwat Iqbal answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      There’s… something there.
      let’s just consider the vast spaces between stars and galaxies, or the gaps between atoms and other microscopic particles. When we talk about nothing in the vast reaches between of space, it’s not actually, technically nothing. Got that? It’s not nothing.

    • Photo: Peter Maskell

      Peter Maskell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      darkness is the absence of light.

    • Photo: Alexander Henderson

      Alexander Henderson answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      The space between stars and planets is a vacuum. Imagine a box with all the air sucked out. The volume inside the box still exists however there is just no contents to it.

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