@Albuquerque,
Let us not forget that this so-called "science", is STILL a Philosophy. Regardless how much momentum is behind it. Momentum does not account for all that opposes it, but rather, just walks all over it and "forces" opposition to agree, and as subtly as can be done, so as to "appear" as the good guy.
One cannot redefine "nothing", in order to force something coming from it.
Qualifications? Mine? I just think, and take Truth to be an absolute. Facts, which change per perspective, are not under the subjection of Truth. Therefore they oppose the Truth. So what are most "facts", since they oppose the Truth?
Does the Experience of lies, determine their validity?
I think not.
Does the momentum of lies determine their validity?
No again. It just determines the amount of force coming upon the one trying to discern Truth.
At some point, one who truly wants the Truth, has to ditch the things they hold to be "self-evident", because most of these were TAUGHT, not so much Naturally Learned.
If one truly "looks" into this "idea", the Eye is the greatest deceiver, yet we base a scientific method on a known liar? Who does that?
But because man seeks CONTROL, they FORCE the concept of "brain". But there is the argument that brain is the manifestation of Mind. This I can actually work with, but this "something" is clearly not a "nothing".
In a philosophical aspect, "nothing" does not "exist". Some have tried to create a "nothing", into which they tried to give it attributes, by whatever medieval methods. This substance would be known as a "golem".
All who have attempted to do this have regretted it, to say the least. If one can take the writings of history as honest accounts, though documented by those who would only be everyday citizens, regardless how eccentric, then their stories should be enough to warn of tampering with the Idea of Nothing.