Can you imagine not imagining?

nothing is the lack of everything...

so it is possible to say something about nothing because nothing is something...imagine that

but are there degrees of nothingness.. is it finite.. or infinite?

Nothing is just as hard to achieve as everything and just as impossible. A complete void I guess a black hole may come close so I have been told; but never come close to one myself. Is nothing possible and could anyone to live and tell about... most likely not.

I think nothingness or nothing only "exists" in outer space. Its what astronomers call a "vacume". Its an area in space that has nothing at all whatsoever - no atoms, no matter, no plasma, no gravity, absolutely nothing. Or nothing could have also "existed" before the universe was created. Its hard to imagine and explain. But nothing is just there... God knows.

"We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom." - Charles S. Pierce "Logic of Events" 1898

He really puts it beautifully. But if you can't decipher 19th century jargon he is basically saying that pure zero refers to a germinal nothing, the absolute nothing that came before everything. Complete.. non-existance. The nothing that came before something existed, not the nothing that came after something. Because as far as we know.. now that this universe is something.. it is impossible to have nothing.

Whether you believe pure zero actually existed or not is up to you. The fact that the temperature of absolute zero has NEVER been reached tells me that it is impossible to have absolutely nothing nowadays. I don't believe chemists will ever be able to record absolute zero.. if it even exists.

In most terms though, I believe nothing simply means not something.