Originally Posted By: Bill
Just to restate it one more time for emphasis. Nothing means not anything, not space, not a quantum foam, not particles, not virtual particles, in other words Nothing.


100% with you there, Bill. As regular users of colloquial English we must recognise other forms of usage, such as: "there's nothing here", but in the absence of the necessary qualifying context, nothing is nothing.

If we have to use "absolute nothing" to ensure that even the ultra punctilious know what we are talking about, so be it.

There never was nothing.