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the most crowded thing there is, packed wall-to-wall with everything you keep waiting to arrive
means The state of containing nothing, or the feeling of lacking something that should be there.
from From Old English æmtig, æmettig, meaning 'vacant, unoccupied, at leisure' — built on æmetta, 'leisure' or 'free time.' The original sense was less 'nothing inside' than 'no work to do,' which is why the same root gives us empty as a verb. The -ness suffix, a faithful old English machine for turning adjectives into states, simply makes the condition into a thing you can hold — or fail to.
- atomic truth
- atoms are 99.9999999% empty space
- buddhist twist
- sunyata means emptiness is actually openness, not lack
- vacuum lie
- empty space fizzes with particles popping in and out
- zero's birth
- counting nothing took humans thousands of years to invent
- cosmic mostly
- the universe is overwhelmingly void between scattered stars
gobi desert — 5 million square kilometers across mongolia and china with vast stretches containing almost no vegetation or human settlement
anechoic chamber at microsoft — redmond washington room with -20.3 decibels of background noise, officially quietest place on earth