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the universe's default setting, briefly interrupted by you and everything you've ever loved
means The complete absence of anything — no matter, no thought, no existence whatsoever — or the philosophical concept of that absolute void.
from A doubled-up English construction: 'nothing' (itself a fusion of Old English 'na thing,' literally 'not a thing') plus the suffix '-ness,' which turns adjectives and nouns into states or qualities. So the word literally builds 'the state of not-a-thing-ness' — layering negation upon negation until you arrive at the abstract noun for the void. Philosophers later borrowed it to translate weightier terms like the German 'das Nichts,' the kind of word Heidegger liked to brood over.
- not empty
- Vacuum seethes with particles flickering in and out constantly
- weighs something
- Empty space carries energy that accelerates cosmic expansion
- fear of it
- Kenophobia names the dread of voids and empty rooms
- absolute zero
- Even perfect cold leaves jittering quantum motion behind
the void in buddhism — sunyata, central concept in mahayana buddhism meaning emptiness or absence of inherent existence
nuclear test trinity — oppenheimer's 1945 alamogordo test that created a massive void of light described as approaching nothingness