The Void

A void is a huge nothing.

This is hard to imagine, but let's try anyway.

Let's start with a box that we empty for air.

Now we have a vacuum. However, it is not empty. It is full of zero-point particles. These are neutrinos and photons without energy. But since these are particles that we never see anyway, we can easily imagine those gone as well.

So we have a box with a void. Let us now place a camera inside this void so that we can look around.

The camera has no size or dimension in any way, so it is not itself a reference object. It can only see and move around. That's all it does.

We can see the walls of our box.

Let's move the walls so far away that we no longer see them.

We got our void, and we got an eye inside of it.

Now, lets turn ninety degrees to the left and move one meter forward.

It can't be done. We have no idea what a 90 degrees turn is, and we have no idea what a meter is. The void is a huge nothing. There are no reference points, so there is no distance. The only reason we have a concept of left and right, and of time is that we are in fact operating the camera from outside the void. If we were truly in the void, we ourselves would be non-material, and relative concepts such as time and direction would cease to exist as well.

But can't we just build a grid and a clock, so that we can navigate? Yes of course we can. But then, we no longer have a void. We have a universe with stuff in it. The moment we have enough stuff in a void to produce a grid and a clock, we've made a universe.

Particle with size and dimensions invalidates the void