Why We Need to Study Nothing - narrated by Nate Hardy of Microwave

“Somewhere across the plain of imminence, shouting into the void…”
That’s singer Nate Hardy from the 2nd track of Microwave’s latest album Let’s Start Degeneracy. Voids-of the emotional sort-are a recurring theme across the album from the cheekily self-described “adult mid-tempo psychedelic contemporary rock band from Atlanta, GA.”
It’s fitting then, that Nate has chosen to read this story from one of our most prolific contributors, theoretical cosmologist Paul M. Sutter.
Paul tells us, “This story about voids is deeply personal to me, as voids have always struck a chord with me and been the focus of my scientific research. But there's so much more to the concept of nothingness than just their physical manifestation, and it's beautiful to hear echoes of that search in Nate's narration.”
Read the story yourself 👉 bit.ly/4azPUgP
See more of Microwave:
Website and tour ➜ www.mcrwv.com/
Instagram ➜ / microwaveatl
See more of Paul M. Sutter:
Website ➜ www.pmsutter.com/
Instagram ➜ / paulmattsutter
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[@zinnyzxx]

I never thought I would see my love of space and Microwave combined. This is awesome

[@danielleswingle7959]

I feel the same! Geeking out

[@NautilUsMag]

@@danielleswingle7959 These comments make us happier than you know. We're so glad we found you in this very unexpected venn diagram of Microwave and the cosmos.

[@WhenHel]

Artists have known this and explore it as negative space. A couple of examples: Non sites (Robert Smithson); Emily Dickinson (“Nothing is the force/That renovates the world”)

[@NautilUsMag]

Thanks for these parallels. What else 🤔?

[@ahobisummer]

I love u Nate 😭😭😭😭

[@romado59]

Forgetting the affect of electromagnetic is one greatest wrongs of astronomy.

[@mikedavis979]

10-15 GRAMS per cubic centimeter? Did I hear that right? in Interstellar space? That can't be right...that is 10-15 times as dense as liquid water! Oh, i bet it was supposed to be 1 x e-15 grams (or 10^-15). Yes, that makes more sense. In the transcript, it would look like 10-15 grams. So should be read as "ten to the negative fifteenth grams per cubic centimeter", "ten to the negative twenty-nineth grams per cubic centimeter", etc. Now THAT is pretty dang empty!

[@anthonyshiels9273]

Nothing is not nothing. It is a No THING.

[@ehello2993]

Microwave! But for real nothingness literally necessitates numerical existence.😊

[@lisasolberg333]

SUNYATA!