If you take away everything that is physical (matter/energy), you’re left with nothing (no thing). Nothing is completely empty space, absolute cold, silence and darkness. “Nothing” is infinite, eternal and indestructible. It does not move. It does not have to; it is already everywhere. The universe is more than 99.9999999% empty space. Even our own bodies are mostly empty space. All physical things are because atoms are mostly empty space. There is a small amount of energy like light and radio waves passing through the entire universe, but it is essentially an infinite void.
True perspective: The way our solar system is shown in books does not give you a true perspective of it. It shows the sun and the other planets orbiting it in rings that are not to scale. They could not get it in a book if it was to scale. The actual scale is more like this: if the sun was the size of a basketball, the earth would be smaller than a grain of sand, and it would be thousands of feet away from it. Pluto, the outer most planet in our system, would be a grain of sand miles away. The next star outside our solar system would be thousands of miles away. It takes light that travels about one-hundred and eighty-six thousand miles a second about eight minutes to go from the sun to our planet. It will go around the earth seven times in one second, but it takes four years to get to the next star outside our solar system, 2.5 million years to get to the next galaxy. This gives you a more true idea of how much empty space there is in our universe. Most of everything is nothing.
You cannot turn off “nothing” or do anything to it. It always stays the same, is always everywhere all the time, infinite, omnipresent, and eternal. Nothing is really something. Einstein's general relativity equations show that space bends, and it proves that nothing is really something with substance. Space is shaped, and it is the shape of space that creates the gravity that controls and creates the whole universe. It holds the planets in orbit, makes the sun and other stars burn, bends light, keeps us from falling off the earth, and it is empty space, nothing.
Nothing causes everything to happen.
Value of general relativity: I always wondered what the practical benefit of general relativity was, and now I know. It proves that nothing controls and creates the whole universe, directly and indirectly.
Our consciousness is also like nothing. It is the so-called empty space between everything. The majority of everything is nothing, and it connects everything, everywhere. Our essential, immortal self or soul is like the blank sheet that physical life is written on, the darkness that gives light a place to shine, the silence that gives sound a place to be heard, an infinite stadium that the game of life is played in. Nothing is the complete opposite of what people think. It is impossible to get your mind around
You cannot experience nothing: You do not look inside yourself to find yourself as some eastern religions have been saying; there is nothing there. You cannot see or experience nothing; it is impossible. You can be like nothing, but not experience it. There is nothing to experience.
Your soul/spirit or consciousness, is in a dark, silent void that is open to life.
Immortality: “It’s impossible to be conscious of being unconscious.”
http://www.livescience.com/28132-what-is-nothing-physicists-debate.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/
The Physics of Nothing; The Philosophy of Everything
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/08/16/the-physics-of-nothing-the-phi/