Did you know that things are things?

When we say something is "nothing," we typically refer to the absence of anything — no matter, energy, or substance. But when you look closely, "nothing" is actually quite tricky to define. In some contexts, like physics, even "nothing" is a concept that still holds some properties, like quantum fluctuations. These are tiny, temporary changes in energy that occur in a vacuum, which means that even "empty space" isn't really "nothing" at all.

Philosophically, "nothing" also doesn't exist in the same way that "something" does. If it did, it would contradict itself because it would be "something" you can describe — the absence of something. In other words, by trying to define "nothing," we end up making it into "something." So, "nothing" is always just a bit more than nothing, depending on how you look at it.

So, why aren't "nothings" not nothings? Because even what we think of as nothing has properties, contradictions, or something that keeps it from truly being "nothing."