Creation of something from nothing seems rather functionally equivalent to destruction of a something into nothing with time reversed. Is there any known proce

Creation of something from nothing seems rather functionally equivalent to destruction of a something into nothing with time reversed. Is there any known process or way to take something and destroy it utterly into nothing? If not, then what would make such an utter destruction possible given a reversed direction of time? Except as an abstraction, it seems to me that no one has any real experience of nothing. As an empiricist, that gives me quite a bit of pause when anyone starts making claims about nothing (myself being no exception).