Sean Carroll Claims Empty Space Has Properties That Disqualify It as Nothing

What was said

"It's not nothingness. It has— there's a way it could have been different. It's different than 4-dimensional empty space."

Physicist Sean Carroll argued on StarTalk that even empty space cannot be considered true nothingness because it possesses inherent properties like dimensionality and obeys laws of physics. This philosophical stance challenges common assumptions about what qualifies as nothing versus something, asserting that the question of why there is something rather than nothing may not have a meaningful answer.