What can fill a room but takes up no space?

[kate_49]

I'm just curious.... I want to know the answer...
I already asked many people and received many answers... but they are all wrong... because there's a scientific explanation...

PS: I may not be able to respond immediately...

[Commi-Ninja]

Silence.

[CarpetCrawler]

Flatulence.

TRY TO ARGUE AGAINST MY ANSWER.

Though, usually, whenever I hear a riddle and the clue is:

there's a scientific explanation...

I know there's gonna be some facepalming involved. On my end.

[Azu]

Silence.

This. So true.

[kate_49]

Silence is not... there's a scientific explanation... silence doesn't even exist... silence is only there because of the absence of sound... the molecules vibrate, thus producing sound... silence can fill the room but it also takes space... it's just that the molecules are not moving and vibrating... they are stable...

Flatulence is a mixture of gases... gas is a phase of matter.... which means it still occupies space....

answers that are not included: air, light, silence, sound, laughter, smell, shadow, warmth, cold, flatulence, (i'm going to look for more)

note: i'm not saying that this answers are not included because i know the real answer, what i'm saying is there's a scientific explanation

[Commi-Ninja]

Silence is not... there's a scientific explanation... silence doesn't even exist... silence is only there because of the absence of sound... the molecules vibrate, thus producing sound... silence can fill the room but it also takes space... it's just that the molecules are not moving and vibrating... they are stable...

Flatulence is a mixture of gases... gas is a phase of matter.... which means it still occupies space....

answers that are not included: air, light, silence, sound, laughter, smell, shadow, warmth, cold, flatulence, (i'm going to look for more)

note: i'm not saying that this answers are not included because i know the real answer, what i'm saying is there's a scientific explanation

Interesting.  The answer that I've always heard was silence.  Well, I'd love to hear whatever answer you're looking for once you find it (or someone else does).

[kate_49]

Silence is not... there's a scientific explanation... silence doesn't even exist... silence is only there because of the absence of sound... the molecules vibrate, thus producing sound... silence can fill the room but it also takes space... it's just that the molecules are not moving and vibrating... they are stable...

Flatulence is a mixture of gases... gas is a phase of matter.... which means it still occupies space....

answers that are not included: air, light, silence, sound, laughter, smell, shadow, warmth, cold, flatulence, (i'm going to look for more)

note: i'm not saying that this answers are not included because i know the real answer, what i'm saying is there's a scientific explanation

Interesting.  The answer that I've always heard was silence.  Well, I'd love to hear whatever answer you're looking for once you find it (or someone else does).

yeah... i'm looking forward to the answer... by the way.. someone even answered vacuum.... EPIC FAIL!

[Jd-]

Dark matter!

someone even answered vacuum.... EPIC FAIL!

Obvious why, though, since the inside is empty in theory... in theory...

[Akonyl]

I'm gonna go with "light".

[GinRei]

Love.

[mangaluva]

Silence is always the answer I heard.

[ArkAngel]

Nothing.

[Kor]

Evil

[Jd-]

I'm gonna go with "light".

Kate said this wasn't the answer she's looking for, but it was my knee-jerk reaction as well. The only problem is that "space" is not clearly defined here. If it is literal spatial volume, light would have to be the answer outside of dark matter. Since "dark matter" thoroughly demonstrates our lack of (rather than it does our depth of) understanding, it would be a suitable answer since A) it so far cannot be "observed" and B) cannot be "captured in a bottle" (though efforts to do this are diligently progressing, even though it's likely they'll never find it). As a result, from our current understanding, we can safely say that it can occupy the room even if we can't see it.

Also, I think...

Spoiler:

The room is an allegory for the energy crisis and the room itself is a metaphor for the ambitions of humanity. It's foolproof!

[Akonyl]

I'm gonna go with "light".

Kate said this wasn't the answer she's looking for, but it was my knee-jerk reaction as well.

...I must have skipped over that in the list of things she said it wasn't. :V