DOES NOTHING EXIST???

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We've kinda covered Everything...........
and nothing:)

OK lets analyse it then...

1 - The concept of nothingness exists.
2 - The concept of nothing reports the absence of something.
3 - The concept of nothingness implies something did exist.
4 - The concept of nothingness cannot report an absolute timeless permanent absence without loosing its meaning.
5 - Finally, the concept of nothing seams to "cannibalize" itself...nothingness is nothing...therefore there is no nothingness.

Nothingness has a common sense daily practical use like stating there is nothing in the freezer although we know there is air in the freezer n the freezer itself is there...when we stretch a word that was meant to be used in relative terms the word meaning breaks down...a good way of getting good concepts apart from bad concepts goes by pushing the limit of the implicit logic in the concept n see if it holds or breaks.

I know. Just heard this from my father. Everything that exists has an opposite. Matter and anti-matter. So the opposite of something is nothing. And the number zero represents nothing.

But zero is needed in math, so it's something.

What is the opposite of camel?

The number zero represents a balance between positive and negative numbers...similarly in theoretical physics is said the total energy of the universe is zero, but then again they report a relation between negative energy and positive energy...don't even ask me about what is "negative energy"...I know some stuff but I am not a physicist.
The point being made is zero is not nothing zero is a balancing number that once again wouldn't make sense without every other number out there...all numbers go back to one.

Figuratively speaking the best description for a "nothingness" sort of idea is perfect equilibrium/balance between opposing forces.

Zero represents nothingness.

A camel is matter. The opposite of matter is anti-matter.

Another point is that when matter and anti-matter are combined, it creates a state of nothingness. This source is from my father, and he was a nuclear physicist, so I'm taking his word on this.

A Cheetah !

Something is matter = ?

When did he combine these?
Where did he get the antimatter?

Exactly. you're giving specific examples of one thing. Matter.

Figuratively speaking your father is right, but I guarantee you is not nothingness...balance of energies doesn't by far equate with nothingness...you have all sorts of events going on there...if it was really nothingness the all Universe with a zero energy sum would vanish out of existence...

So the opposite to 'something' (matter) is not 'nothing', it is antimatter - which is something.

No. Matter and anti-matter are opposites. Something and nothing are opposites.

Then a camel is not something?

It is a remote relationship. A camel is closer to the genre of matter.

Also, isn't that how computers are programmed?

It could be argued the opposite of matter is energy n the opposite of space is time...
But there is one exception to the opposites rule...Everything has no opposite as it includes the relative balances of forces, all the symmetric oppositions with all the dynamics within, and all the dimensions you can think off...
Everything is pretty much indestructible. From something you will always get something.