Every writer will tell you that they cannot think of plots as convoluted, outrageous and bizarre as the things that happen to people in real-life. The old comic line ‘you couldn’t make this up’ has made people roar with laughter on more than one occasion. In fact sometimes we go so far as to say that the truth is far better than the fiction especially when dealing with the powerful and the famous.
Science is not fiction, that is its one great strength over religion, but at times in seeking for evidence we may find ourselves looking for those things we consider evidence. In terms of science this is a methodology of experiment that others can understand and copy so as to verify. Though interesting it doesn’t always answer questions that a philosopher would ask such as why, for instance, do atoms and space seem to be largely emptiness?
The reason being for scientist that something like empty space (if indeed it is empty) would be the result of physical properties and chemistry rather than a pointer to anything specific. Yet, symmetry is deeply ingrained in nature as string theory supports and truth is not beyond the eye all the time.
Emptiness rules our lives, and ‘nothing’ is worth writing about.