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“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam” (bigthink.com)
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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What is the ontology of a concept or idea? If nothing doesn't exist materially but strictly conceptually, does it not exist or is there a different term one should employ to refer to it? 🤔

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

It's that they're using a more normal people term. They probably wanted to say vacuum.