DOES NOTHING EXIST???

Philosophically and linguistically the word 'nothing' is a privative. Just like the word a-theist and in-finite and im-(=in) possible.

No, although there's then the problem of causality. My own research into reality suggests that causality can't be resolved because with reality and causation being synonymous to know one is to know the other, which is physically impossible.

Causality is only relevant to physical properties.

empty space isn't nothing in fact matter is made from space

if nothing doesnt exist it does a good job at existing

It's funny how people can talk about not existing.

The absence of absence is pretty straight forward.

Nothing does indeed exist. Nothing is merely where space-time does not exist. There must have been something (or nothing) before space-time in order for our universe to begin.

So what is it that is not spacetime and yet it is some place ??? As far as I recall my definition of somewhere points too a package of space a dimension place !
Nothing its a self contradictory concept, ultimately it erases itself from existence by DEFINITION.

I know it's hard to wrap your head around this but the answer is nothing!

A word must report to any given thing...having some hand waving pseudo concept doesn't mean you grasped any transcendental fact about it.
In reality you have replacement of things with other things, transmutation not absence in its purest sense. This is even truer when we talk about the absence of everything which necessarily would include the absence of absence itself. The concept of Nothingness is philosophically poor and tricky.

And it goes nowhere.

There is a lot to be said about spacetime as a primary order phenomena in reality. For instance in my pov just like in a movie anything that is real in any spacetime frame is real forever. The passage of time is just an elaborate illusion. Again like in a film where an X given set of frames has already occurred that does not imply the film tape has vanished. Nothingness is a simple-minded concept born out of our everyday common sense experiencing of the passage of time and transmutation of phenomena which on close scrutiny doesn't pass any logical test.

Yes indeed and yet people love to fantasise about it ya know cause it apparently appeals to "freedom"...some people confuse nothingness with free form openness... whatever that intends to mean in the simpleton minds that think of it as a very liberating concept.

The concept of what exists outside of this universe or brane or for that matter what may have or what still does exist before our universe started is nothing because there was no time...thats thes definition I'm referring to and it would exist I imagine at plank length (or smaller?) And it is hard to wrap our macro brains around it.

I don't get it. If time didn't exist before the big bang, then how could anything happen to cause it? Pardon my naivety.

Also, (being a lazy bastard) I didn't read the whole thread so apologies if anyone has already mentioned Prof. Jim Al-Khalili's rather spiffing documentary "Everything and Nothing", which I'm unfortunately unable to find on Youtube. If anyone else can find it I would highly recommend it.

'Nowhere' doesn't exist either, Cic.
Anything that starts with 'No' is absent by definition.

Everything........... Always.......... WAS, IS and Will EVER Be.

Do we know for certain that in the place outside of our universe the time is required for cause and effect? Once again here we are trying to understand nothingness based on our local understanding.

"Cause" and "effect" can be reduced to ordering in a timeless pov about reality...it has nothing to do or to say about nothingness....
Nothingness by definition, get a dictionary, has no placing...