h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(Christopher Robin said) "... what i like doing best is Nothing"
"How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, its when people call out at you just as you are going off to do it 'what are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say 'Oh, nothing,' and then you go and do it."
"Oh, i see" said Pooh.

Always thought Pooh was a lot brighter than he admitted.

Can it be possible to do nothing and still exist?

Well..the existence of nothing and the doing of nothing are two different things..which did you mean?

It depends on what 'nothing' is. If it's absolute nothing, then, umm....no.

hmmm i think that's sort of the point nothing can not exist... because if it does... then its something

*is reminded of overly cheesy illustration in a presentation years ago, in which a storyteller said, "It is not the cup, but the empty space inside that becomes useful'* hmm...deep.

*is a usefully vacant vessel * (heads out of the gutter, people)

<< breaks into song >>

"busy doing nothing working the whole day through...
trying to find lots of things not to do...
bust going nowhere isn't it just a crime...
i'd like to feel unhappy but...
i never do have the time..."

unhelpful in this context i know but it just popped into my head.

Would a vacuum count as nothing<?>

nope... if its nothing how can you call it something? i.e. a vacuum

p.s. i know my vacuum exists cause i did the hoovering with it earlier

But that contradicts itself: if it's nothing why can you call it 'nothing'<?>

I'm not sure if it's really relevant here, but hey, who cares?
I am reminded of the way people sometimes 'don't see' things of which they have no comprehension - or believe they have seen something else. e.g. 'natives' ignore a sailing ship on the horizon or say it is a big fish.
A sort of no-thing approach?

An SEP field!

As I was going up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today,
I wish I wish he'd go away.

My computer thinks there's nothing in one of its DIMM slots.......stupid machine.

teasswil...

have you tried removing the nothing from your slot...

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hmmm interesting thought, its not possible to remove nothing only to replace it with something

My PC has achieved enlightenment with my assistance.....

Can you replace something with nothing, or do you just have an absence of something?

Nothing is the absence of something.