Nothing is what surrounds something.
We need some nothing in order to perceive something.
TimB
Let say that ‘‘nothing’’ is what surrounds us is ‘‘air’’
but the air has physical / chemical qualities
Lat say that ‘‘nothing’’ is what surrounds quantum particles
is ‘‘something’’, then the ‘‘something’’ must have physical quality
and ‘‘there are things (quantum things) that may pop into and
out of existence inside of it’’ (inside of that seems as a “nothing” ).
Many physical experiments prove this view
(Casimir effect, Lamb shift . . . )
“In modern physics, there is no such thing as “nothing.”
Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly
being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles
is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed,
the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist
leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to
a high degree of accuracy.”
― Richard Morris