Charlie sat pondering at his desk. His topic of inquiry for the moment was the concept of time. It seemed constant, but he knew Einstein had proved that time was relative. Charlie also knew that reality itself was relative; if in someone’s mind something was true, then for all intents & purposes it was. It was his or her perception of reality, therefore it was reality itself.
“A person believes something to exist & in their mind it does, thereby making it exist,” he reasoned aloud. “But what if something is believed to not exist?”
He entertained this idea for a moment, twirling his pencil between his fingers. He decided to give it a try. He pushed his chair a distance from his desk, leaned back slightly, & closed his eyes. “Mass is simply empty space,” he muttered. “Empty space is nothing, therefore it does not exist. The time in which nothingness is suspended is relative, & that time does not exist.”
At that moment, all people made this same realization.
At that moment, everything simply ceased to exist.