LESON ON NOTHING

What is Nothing?

• Is it empty space?
• Is it the number ZERO?
• Is it when you just sit and
be quiet?


NOW…
PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN
AND DO NOTHING
C’mon…Try really hard…
be very still…can you do it?


Is it possible to…

DO NOTHING?
Is your brain still working?
Is your heart still beating?


Aren’t you thinking…

ABOUT
SOMETHING


But, how do you get something…

FROM

NOTHING?


Ex nihilo
• This is a Latin word; it means:

“OUT OF NOTHING”


Think about making something…

OUT OF NOTHING


IMPOSSIBLE YOU
SAY??

MAYBE NOT


LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE ATOM


Atoms are made of teeny tiny particles called protons,
neutrons, and electrons. The green and orange
dots in the in the middle are called the nucleus of the
atom.
The electrons spin (really fast) around the nucleus.
Everything in the whole Universe
(planets, stars, people, animals, plants) is made of

Atoms.
EVERYTHING!!


But this picture is not exactly how real atoms
appear. We can imagine the atom a lot
bigger to get an idea of what it actually looks
like.


If the protons and neutrons were as wide as the tip
of your finger, and the electrons were the diameter
of one human hair…
Then the whole atom would be wider than the
length of fifteen football fields!

(no way…YES WAY!!)


SO WHAT…DOES THIS
MEAN?
(DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?)

THIS WILL FREAK
YOU OUT
(I PROMISE)


ARE YOU READY?

IT MEANS THAT
THE ATOM IS 99.9%
EMPTY SPACE…


IT MEANS THAT…
THE ATOM IS:

NOTHING!


IT MEANS THAT…
EVERYTHING IS MADE OF…

NOTHING!


TOLD YOU…

IT WOULD FREAK YOU OUT


BUT…

HOW CAN THIS BE TRUE?


IT IS TRUE BECAUSE,
WHEN THESE ZILLIONS AND

CABILLIONS OF ATOMS HOOK UP
(LINK ELECTRONS) TOGETHER
THEY MAKE WHAT WE SEE AS
SOLID OBJECTS.


SO…
• WHEN CONNECTIONS (between
electrons) ARE MADE SOMETHING IS
CREATED.


YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

• GO HOME AND DO
NOTHING
(SIT QUIETLY FOR AT
LEAST 15 MINUTES)


THEN…
• TRY NOT TO THINK OF ANYTHING…
BUT
• AT THE SAME TIME PAY GENTLE
ATTENTION TO WHAT POPS INTO
YOUR MIND


AND FINALLY
• IF SOMETHING INTERESTING

HAPPENS…
• WRITE IT DOWN…AND…

• COME BACK AND TALK ABOUT IT


SO, NOW YOU KNOW THAT,
• SOMETHING IS REALLY NOTHING
(and)
• NOTHING IS REALLY SOMETHING