What is nothing

WHAT IS NOTHING?

Nothing is a term used to describe something not being there at all or used to describe the nonexistence of anything. Usually when you are using nothing to describe something, you would say “there isn’t anything there”. Grammatically the term nothing is an indefinite pronoun. This means it refers to a more unspecific being.
Really there could not be nothing because there is always something there and you could not have nothing. And if nothing existed there would be anything to be nothing so therefore nothing can’t exist, the thing that would exist would be nothing.
If you walk into a room and there is no furniture. The room is empty so you would walk into a room and say there is nothing there. But that is actually incorrect because there is always something there including oxygen carbon dioxide and a number of other gasses. And there are also the walls. So there is something there.
The concept of nothing itself is something so therefore it defeats its own purpose.
For example
1. Nothing is better than eternal happiness.
2. A ham sandwich is better than nothing.
3. Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
The four terms in this example are
• Eternal happiness,
• A ham sandwich,
• Nothing-as-a-thing, which a ham sandwich is better than, and
• Nothing-as-an-absence-of-a-thing: 'no-thing' or 'not-some-thing', i.e., no entity exists that is better than eternal happiness
This is very complicated. When phrasing ‘nothing’ into a sentence of a piece of text you have to be very careful with the way you say it. Even if you just ad a word to it, you could change the meaning entirely.
Some Philosophers dismissed the concept of nothing as a stupid idea and others thought it was that deep it was impossible to study every aspect of nothing. Many philosophers have tried to study nothing
To get the closest to nothing we need to go to the farthest corner of space where there is absolutely no atoms at all which creates the perfect vacuum but there it is again the is something there ,the vacuum. So this defeats the whole purpose.

So the answer to the question is that the word nothing is a paradox (if I said nothing is a paradox there would mean there a no paradoxes)
By Samuel

Info from http://express.howstuffworks.com/mb-nothing.htm and Wikipedia