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Thanks everyone.

Blimey! I can see this is going to be even more complicated than I thought! By 'nothing' I mean the total absence of anything at all. Void, space and vacuum, I agree, are all 'something'.

This is probably a stupid question, or the wrong place to ask it...please be gentle with me. I have been having a big argument with a friend about what is beyond the universe. I say nothing at all. He says the universe must be expanding into something and that that something is black. I think black ...