Originally Posted by
Ekpyrosos
OK, but it sounds like you're describing an absence of matter within a prescribed space, inside a universe like ours where space, matter, time, energy, etc. seem to exist. In other words, a nothing that only exists as a non-thing in relation to one or more extant or potential things, and a nothing that still contains something, i.e. spatial extensionality and an energy state. Rather like what Watts spoke of in the video that lecky posted above, a relative nothing instead of the absolute kind. But our OP's featured hypothetical is the latter sort, a universe of absolutely nothing but nothing, that excludes space and energy and anything else. So if all that there is Isn't, and there's no capacity for anything to be at all, is that total nonexistence actually extant in its own right?