What Is Nothing?

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This is a video about nothing. Hope you learn something!

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[livvieblair]

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it". - Mark Twain.

[jaqihegland]

So if I say I learned nothing today, that doesn't mean a lack of learning. Today I learned a lot about nothing. Very educational.

[edweefication]

What i love so much about this channel is, albeit very limited, they involve critical and philosopical thinking in almost every video. It sparks our curiosity and thus, our interest.

[ShortHax]

In the parallel nothing universe: “What is something?”

[Ngamotu]

I had this exact discussion in my physics class at school. The teacher had shown us a vacuum tube made of glass, explaining there was nothing in there. However, one other student and myself insisted there had to be something in the tube, as light was clearly passing through it, and light is not nothing.

[gemaster]

This reminds me of when my parents argued about nothing. One time when I was a kid, during a road trip in which my little sister and I became tired and cranky and bickered near nonstop, my parents tried to teach us a lesson about how silly our arguments were and how frustrating they were to listen to, by interrupting us to have a logical argument about literal nothing. My dad argued that nothing as the absence of something made nothing something, and my mom argued that something couldn’t be nothing because by its definition nothing is where there is not something. In a case with of cookies, by eating all your cookies, you had no or nothing cookies left, but if you ate all your cookies then you also did not have cookies. Unfortunately the lesson about petty arguments my parents were trying to teach soared over my and my sister’s head. We thought the whole performance to be hilarious and the concept of debating literal nothing even more hilarious and spent the rest of the drive engaging in our own increasingly silly and illogical argument about the meaning of nothing and giggling about it. However, the memory of that event stuck with me. When I saw the title of this video, I immediately thought of that road trip and my parents’ argument about nothing. I loved this video and shared it with my sister and my parents, and we enjoyed reminiscing about that long ago silly argument and learning more about nothing. Thank you for giving my family this enjoyable reminder. 😄

[Phailnaught]

The whole time I could only think of, "There's literally EVERYTHING in space, Morty!"

[soblovey]

“Our brain analyzes past experiences so we can adjust our future behavior” Oh god is this why my brain loves to flashback to past embarrassing or cringe-worthy moments in my life the moment I relax and find some peace

[JoseAyapan]

As Freddie Mercury once said: "Nothing" really matters to me. <3

[Afl]

I used to think about this question when I was like 8 years old, but it drove me crazy because if nothing is nothing the word nothing wouldn’t even exist so thanks for the clarification!

[Omroqurba]

Nothing is like infinite, it doesn't exist in reality, it's just a way of expressing mathematics. It's funny how can some people say that the universe came from nothing or from infinite universes.

[SerendipitousProvidence]

I can't believe I'm going to watch an almost 16-minute video about nothing. Here goes nothing!

[haironscreen]

Joe:- "Who invented 0 and when, we don't know for sure"
Aryabhatta :- Am I a joke to you?

[PLUGx]

this is one of the best science videos I've ever seen. thoughtful and insightful. no unnecessary comedy or hyperactive editing. subscribed!

[pablolloyd]

I cannot tell you how deeply grateful I am that you made this video. Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[johncoxmastercartoonist]

Joe's opening dialogue about whether or not he was doing nothing reminds me of that old Sesame Street skit where Ernie refuses to help Bert with the groceries because he argues that he's not doing nothing.

[jackielinde]

When working with variables in programming, there is a concept of a NULL value, or a nothing value. The idea is that zero (for numeric variables) and a string variable that contains no characters (literally nothing between the quotes "") is still SOMETHING. The idea of a NULL value is that you can create a variable and not assign it anything at that point. And you can wipe the value of the variable back to a NULL state. It's useful to see if something has interacted with the variable or if someone's filled out a field on a form.

But now we named it, doesn't that make it SOMETHING?

[shadow_]

I have thought over this so many times and it's a weird thing. Because when you think of nothing there is always something, but for nothing to exist there has to be something.

[randomstudent]

Coincidentally, I spent about an hour 2 days ago pondering the meaning of absoluteness & nothingness, and I concluded that the only “Absolute is nothing.”

[austinfreyrikrw]

Yup, I've learned "nothing" from watching this video today. Great job, Joe! Keep it up! Keep teaching us nothing, lol!