Nothing is Nothing

What do these three statements have in common?

“I tried selling my work but nothing works”
“I’ve got nothing of value to add on Twitter”
“I’ve got no ideas, I can’t make things”

They all misunderstand what “nothing” is.

Nothing is nothing…

Joel Achenbach explains that there’s no such thing as nothing:

“Seems to me that “nothing,” for all its simplicity and symmetry and lack of arbitrariness, is nonetheless an entirely imaginary state, or condition, and we can say with confidence that it has never existed.”

Quantum mechanics suggests that ‘nothing’ is unstable… that ‘nothing’ is guaranteed to eventually form something, spontaneously, given enough time.

Laurence Krauss wrote a whole book on the topic, contending that the multiverse makes even our determined our laws of nature consequently “less significant”.

Nothing is nothing.

If you feel you’ve got nothing to add…
Or nothing is working…

…then remember: this is simply an unstable state, out of which something will form… spontaneously… given enough time.