So, what is a state of 'Absolute Nothing'?
Sorry, there is no such thing as a state of Absolute Nothing. It can't happen, and this is why:
If we were to stick one of our hands in a tank of air, what would happen? Well, the air would have to make room for the hand. Air can do just that. Air has the quality of 'Give' or 'Yield', therefore the amount of air that the hand displaces will exit the tank.
Water will also yield to the hand, because water falls under the catergory of something. And, every something has qualities that can be manipulated in some way. Every 'something' in existence can either be pushed, pulled, penetrated, stretched, melted, boiled... Even if a tank was filled with the hardest substance known to man, as in the next image, something can be done to it.
The tank can be filled with steel, or diamond, and one way or another that material will give way.
For the sake of this discussion, let's say we were able to fill a tank with a big ol' chunk of 'Absolute Nothing'. We would never be able to place our hand in it, or drill through it. Why? Because a chunk of Absolute Nothing cannot rush out like air. Because Absolute Nothing cannot spill over the side like water. Because there is nothing to drill into. Absolute Nothing has no qualities: no give, no yield, no height, no width, no length, no density, no NOTHING! Absolute Nothing simply cannot fill a space, whether it be a small fish tank or a universe.
Turning Something into Nothing
Instead of wondering how something can be made out of nothing, we should be asking how something can be reduced to nothing. Through this process we can see that a state of Absolute Nothing could never exist, because no material can be reduced to zero. Everything that is contained within the realm of Somethingness is stuck right here. Burning a match will result in the release of gases, and will reduce the solid materials into ashes. Every altered part of the match, however, can still be accounted for in this realm. Nothing can escape because there is no state of Absolute Nothing to escape to.
By default, the universe exists because the state of Absolute Nothing cannot exist. So, what was in the space before the universe became as we know it today? Click here
