The Nothing Box

Lauren: Babe, I've been watching you for 30 minutes now and you just have this blank expression on your face. What are you thinking about?

Steve: Nothing.

Lauren: Nothing? Nothing at all?

Steve: Yes, nothing.

Lauren: So, you're telling me that in the last 30 minutes, you haven't had one single thought. Not one in the past 30 minutes.

Steve: Yes, not one single thought. I was like just staring there into space.

Lauren: But, space is a thought. Even space is not just nothing.

Steve: Well, I often think of nothing.

Lauren: But that's impossible. No one just thinks of nothing.

Steve: Well I do, me! I think nothing.

Lauren: No one thinks nothing, it's not human and you're not a robot, therefore, you must be thinking something. You must have had one thought (Using her index finger to gesture the number 1) and you don't want me to know what you were thinking.

Steve: I was thinking nothing.

Lauren: But, nothing doesn't really exist.

Steve: Of course, it does and not everyone is like you.

Lauren: There are four different types of nothing.

Steve: I was literally thinking nothing.

Lauren: (Uses one finger to gesture one). One... Albert Einstein described "nothing" as being a dark void like an empty box of nothingness. (Uses her hands to gesture an empty box).

Steve: But, I was thinking of nothing.

Lauren: (Uses two fingers to gesture two) Then, Hawkins described nothing as being like a blue thermal light. So, did you see any blue? Or, feel some thermal heat?

Steve: I told you that I was thinking nothing.

Lauren: And, I told you that "nothing" doesn't actually exist. Go read the Bible and you will find that God created the Earth out of "Nothing", so clearly nothing is something, or we wouldn't be here right now having this discussion on nothing.

Steve: And, the third nothing?

Lauren: (Uses her fingers to gesture the number 3). Number three is a little trickier...

Steve: Go on then...

Lauren: (Uses her hands to gesture a mountain) Imagine that you are at one side of a mountain and somehow you were able to walk through one side of a mountain to get to the other side. That would be one number three.

Steve: Okay, so the space that the person uses to walk through is nothing.

Lauren: Yes, space.

Steve: And, four... What is number four?

Lauren: (Uses her fingers to gesture the number four) Number four is time travel. Space exploration and black holes. (Smiling and feeling accomplished).

Steve: But, I was thinking nothing.

Lauren: Well, that can't be the case because nothing doesn't actually exist, so you must be thinking something and don't want to tell me. Are you plotting to kill me?

Steve: (Shouts) No, I was literally thinking nothing!

Lauren: Well, that was a waste of your time then.