# nothing (absence)

not a thing

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: nothing

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [none](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-none.quantity), [off](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-off.state)

**Through:** if there is no quantity of any thing and the state is off, the result is not a thing

**Novel properties:**
- not a thing
- not quantity

## Examples
- The vacuum inside the Large Hadron Collider's beam pipe measures 10⁻¹³ atm, among the lowest pressures achieved on Earth. *(physics)*
- After the 2003 Iraq War, the Coalition Provisional Authority dissolved the Iraqi Army, leaving no standing military force. *(institutions)*
- In 2015, the Amazon S3 service in us-east-1 went offline for 4 hours, making countless websites appear completely empty. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [collapse](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collapse.failure) (L14)
- [comfortable](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-comfortable.central) (L14)
- [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless) (L11)
- [obsolete](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-obsolete.inactive) (L15)
- [ripening](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ripening.approaching) (L18)

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