Maybe there is both nothing and something.

It is as it is

Nothingness is normally the case. "Something" is shown in perception, understood and conceptualized as such empirical evidence for being by intellective activity. Both absent before life and after death, and from rocks, seas, planets, stars, etc. At least as the space/time reifier or transcendent realist takes those external views, distinctions, name tags and identifications / descriptions to still be applicable even independent of consciousness. Despite the prevailing blankness (LOL).