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Here's some backyard physics for you, from Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea (by Charles Seife), Appendix E, "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine": "It's easy - just follow these four simple steps. Step 1: Build a small wormhole... Step 2: Attach one end of the wormhole to something very heavy and the other end to a spaceship that's going at 90 percent of speed of light..."

Ready? Set. Go nowhere!

Math is a language, just like English. You can speak sense or nonsense in Math just like in any other language.

My point? The word "nothing" (or "zero" in the language of math) exists but what it refers to doesn't.

p.s.: "Zero" by Seife is a great book