Timeline for What would absolute nothingness look like?
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 14:58 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 17:08 | comment | added | John | this really depends on where the voids are if there is light behind them it will pass right through. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 15:41 | answer | added | Dexyan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 15:14 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | It would look like nothing we've ever seen. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 14:32 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 0:27 | comment | added | Willk | 6 answers and 2 upvotes. Come on you all. Ahahaha needs rep! | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | jamesqf | @ gen-ℤ: Actually, I don't see black when I close my eyes. In the daytime, I see a sort of orangy-pink that's the result of some light penetrating my eyelids. At night, or in a dark room, I see things that are (presumably) the result of random firings of retina cells and/or neurons. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 8:42 | comment | added | AlexP | If those things exist it means they are something instead of being nothing. (And modern physics has great trouble with the concept of absolute nothingness. As far as we know, there is no such thing as absolute nothingness; the vacuum has energy, is permeated by gravitational and electromagnetic fields etc.) | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 7:00 | comment | added | gen-ℤ ready to perish | Put your finger in front of your eyes. Close your eyes. What do you see where the finger should be? Black. Now slowly move your finger around your head until it’s out of your field of vision. What do you see where the finger should be? Not black—nothing. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 6:27 | answer | added | rek | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 6:04 | answer | added | PcMan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 5:47 | comment | added | PcMan | Falsehood the Second: "Light is needed for color, so black should trump white, right?" No matter how much black you throw at white, it remains exactly the same white. But all that is needed to destroy black is one quanta of white. White is infinitely stronger than black. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 5:45 | comment | added | PcMan | Falsehood the First: "no color = white". White is ALL colors, not none. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 4:58 | answer | added | Otkin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 3:11 | answer | added | Justin Thyme the Second | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:37 | answer | added | GrumpyYoungMan | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:30 | comment | added | user6760 | I don't quite understand your question, is this about how our sights work? Black is not a color but rather it is a trick produced by our brain and in fact all colors are part of the trickery! I doubt this is about worldbuilding maybe you can clarify a bit more ;D | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:24 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Ummmm...white isn't no colour. White is all colours. No colour is either transparent or black depending on if it is opaque/reflective or transparent. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:23 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:17 | comment | added | DT Cooper | Human brains can’t imagine nothing | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 2:14 | comment | added | elemtilas | Is it translucent? There are astrological voids, after all --- large relatively empty zones of space. You can still see the galaxies and stars that are on the other side. Voids otherwise seem to look no different than "empty space" around them. If we could see better (more wavelengths) voids might look a little more inviting. | |
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