The Essence of Nothingness

Nature, simply put, does not exist. What does exist is an infinite number of potential events that reside in probability states from 0% to 100%. As an event approaches 100% the probability of it actually occurring increases. If the event reaches 100% probability it becomes "real". This event leaves a wake of lesser probabilities all greater than zero probability. This wake of probable events creates paths for other potential events, kind of like little holes into which potential events fall. Once a potential event (one having become 100% probable) occurs the probability of other events occurring in the same place increases so these events tend to aggregate in finite areas.

This process is like an avalanche, once the first event become actual, others rapidly follow. The entire extent of what we call the universe is the bubbling up of potential events into actually existing "things". The universe is without scale of any kind. These events have no size but they do congregate in particular areas making the universe lumpy. As the process continues these lumps combine into galactic clusters, galaxies, stars and all the other stuff. Regardless of the size of these lumps, the fundamental unit of existence remains these little probability events. At this scale larger structures do not exists and have no meaning. This is, in fact, the only scale.

Traveling through the universe at this level there would exist no discernible matter and there would be no light, it would be more like space itself were lumpy. These events are not "things", they have no substance but they shape space and this shaping is what we think of as "matter". Since matter and energy are equivalent and each defined by its relationship to the other (E=MC^2), they are actually the same "thing". The only reality is the speed of light (C). Since speed is more a measure of time than distance, the only actually existing "thing" in the universe is time. Since time measures duration and duration requires end points, the points are made real by time. In all of this there are no actually existing things in the conventional sense, only measurements (see This for a good example of this phenomenon). All of this was demonstrated by Acme the Cretin of Cornwall in his response to Anselm's "Ontological Argument" in his magnum opus, Proof of the Circularity of the Tautology (1103, Medieval Press). In this paper, Acme showed that if one put a marble in a box and then sealed the box, one could not know at what point the marble became a cockroach. All that could be determined with certainty is that the cockroach turned back into a marble any time someone looked inside the box. This is exactly the proof Odious the Great needed to justify the prohibition of the manufacture of marbles in 1115.

Later Erwin Shrodinger modified this experiment using a cat but the cat ate the marble and died. Since Shrodinger couldn't see inside the box, he didn't know when the cat ate the marble or how much later it died. All he found was the dead cat and a half eaten cockroach. From this he was able to confirm that time does not exist inside a sealed box.

Philander Potts, professor of Cosmetology at the Cornel Dermatology Laboratory, added to this discovery in 1973 with his insight into the Law of Motion, Our Friend Inertia (Journal of Modern Science and Crossdressing No. 1246). He observed that as more people got into a Volkswagen Van the longer it took to accelerate to its top speed of 40 miles per hour. Alas, it also took much longer to stop. On his monument at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is incised his formula: "1 marble + 1 dead cat + one Volkswagen Van = 40 miles per hour. " From all of this it becomes obvious that, if there is really anything existing in the universe, it looks exactly like a marble. Extrapolating from that we arrive at the sure and certain conclusion that all is not what it seems which is the very essence of the proof for the non-existence of the universe. The philosophical implications are enormous. What we see as existing is merely the appearance of existence. Reality is in the observing. What is observed is ourselves observing our own perceptions. The universe is only our perception of it and it has no independent existence. We create the universe by looking at it. This is obvious and examples abound: airplanes fly because we believe they fly. If everyone on board believes it will crash then, by golly, it will crash. Television remote controls work because they have a manual that says they will. The manual, read or not, is a collection of incantations giving power to whoever holds the device. The humble and ubiquitous battery is merely the repository of these incantations and others like them. It is our belief that is the real and ultimate power not the thing believed in. Existence exists because we believe it does. Without us there is nothing. With us there is still nothing but we don't believe in nothing so it has no power.