I still need to ask someone a retarded physics question I can't properly articulate
Try. You never know.
Ok, so hear me out, cuz this is gonna sound pretty retarded.
Physicists tell me there can be such a thing as a vacuum, where nearly no matter exists.
And I understand that their are certain underlying 'fields' (unseen forces, akin to witchcraft) which also permeate space.
But I have played around with magnets enough to suspect that field can cancel each other out, if put close enough together.
Could there be a point in space that is devoid of all matter and fields?
If so, how would matter and fields know how to interact in a point of empty space?
Like, matter certainly has properties, and fields have properties, but wouldn't truly empty space have no properties?
But somehow any empty space knows exactly to tell matter/fields exactly how to behave when inside it?
Shouldn't that mean that empty space is somehow filled with information?
In your example, you still have both of those magnetic fields, they simply cancel one another leaving 0. They're still there, they just don't affect anything because they're equal and opposite.
I don't know that the rules of our reality would allow something where there is nothing - in order to exist here it has to be something.
You're delving more into philosophical theory at this point than physical theory.
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