Catholic (Augustinian) philosophical standpoint says that evil is essentially the absence of good. Ultimately, evil in itself is a soul-destroying nothingness.
We can find a vacuum both on a cosmological and microscopic scale. Indeed, measurements from WMAP and other satellites concluded that the mass content of the Universe is a mere 4,9% ordinary matter. The 26,8% is dark matter, and 68,3% is dark energy. Dark matter and dark energy, for humans’ senses, are nothingness. Indeed, it is the vacuum that fills most of the space.
On the other hand, when we take a closer look at atoms, it appears that atom consists primarily of empty space.
The nucleus, the center of an atom, is about 10,000 times smaller in diameter than electrons orbits around it. Electrons are so small that no one has determined their size. An atom is composed of a nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons. Between them, there is, once again, an empty space. Speaking shortly: nothingness surrounds us, whether on a cosmic scale or atomic-microscopic scale.
Is the nothingness awaits people after death? Perhaps. Still, I believe that remaining in peoples’ memories, thanks to, e.g., creating art, can somehow help us not get lost in the nooks and void of history. The truth is that there were millions of people who had already passed away and about whom we know nothing. I do not want to surname “Mazek” lost in the nothingness.
That’s why I take photos, write texts, manage the www.adammazek.com website and prepare subsequent editions of “Diaries.”
Is looking into the dark void of the Universe or empty spaces, between nucleus and electrons, in atoms, a kind of watching into a window of nothingness? I do not think so. Even if we see nothingness and void and do not understand many things, it is not the reason to stop searching for answers. Is the silence that occupies the vacuum answer to all existential questions? Probably, yes.
