I appreciate your reply, Rezwits, and I hope you like my further reply.
Space is a phenomenon, and while it is real it does not have properties of its own.
A good example of a phenomenon is the Eye of the Storm. As you know, the Eye itself does not have much wind in it, and it forms not because of itself but because of the circumstances. If we take just the eye and place it in another area without storm, no one would be able to tell much of a difference; it would go unnoticed. The eye contains regular air, it is very recognizable, but there ain't much wind in it.
Same for space, it is not a something that does anything at all. It just is part of the larger reality.
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I know about the importance of spacetime, yet spacetime is not about time and it is not about space. It is about very special conditions for matter.
Einstein understood it well, and he was not happy when others started using it incorrectly. Allow me to explain this better with an analogy first.
The foundation of science is fantastic. Anything that is repeatable is a scientific fact. That is wonderful. But at the big picture level, many scientists lose sight of what science is. Here comes the analogy:
If science were a building then the foundation is fantastic and even the walls, windows, doors and materials are simply wonderful. Yet the building does not have a roof.
Of course there is a scientific roof, but it is built right next to the house, also with the same fantastic foundations. It lies on solid ground and everything of the roof is picture perfect — except its location.
As soon as someone tries to lift the roof on top of the building, many scientists object and prevent the roof to be placed on the rest of the building. They say it must be based on solid grounds.
And this is where Einstein was magnificent. Instead of placing the roof on top of the building, he placed the structural methodology of the roof and not the roof itself on top of the building.
So, he did something very amazing. The scientific building still does not have a roof, but Einstein correctly figured out the blueprint of the roof.
Then, other scientists started to take that blueprint of the roof and are taking it as the blueprint of the foundation. Einstein objected (particularly obvious in light of the mass in Black Holes), but other scientists ignored Einstein and ran away with it.
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Einstein's good friend Gödel showed the world his Incompleteness Theorems. He was completely in line with Einstein, but he, too, got ignored by scientists where it really matters.
This is how Gödel (using my own words here) showed us the reality of the universe in light of matter.
We can use 1 to express what we see happening with matter at the local level. With planet and star, we see a single mass (1).
One level up, with solar system and Milky Way, we can already not use just 1 anymore. It needs to be a combination of 1 and 0 because the masses will not become a single mass and yet they are somehow tied to one another. We see a 1/0 reality.
The next levels up do not show us a 1 at all. There is no collective behavior among matter at the levels larger than galaxies. We can only use 0 to explain the largest of levels. And that is how we should see space. It embodies 0.
Gödel already told us that the universe has two behaviors that are in complete opposition to one another.
- Convergence
- Divergence
At the local level we have convergence, at the universal level we have divergence, and in between we see a mixture of the two.
Anyone trying to place a 1 at the universal level will do something that is perhaps understandable but not very smart.
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Many folks have a hard time seeing that only 1 is capable of expressing a singular reality. They think that 0 is a singular number and that is not true. I wrote about that in the article as well.
In the example of 010 it is easy to see that the first 0 is not like the second 0. Take the first 0 out and not much changed, really. But take the second 0 out and the number changed dramatically; that number (01) became something else because the second 0 went missing.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems are easy to understand. If we start out for instance with a man, or with a group of males, then we can find truths, but these truths cannot be taken all the way to the general level of people. This is a prime example how scientists can also not take scientific truths and place them all at the big-picture level without having to adjust themselves to that big picture level.
So, when we see space and look at it, we have to look at space from the big picture level itself. If we see space only in relationship with matter, and even tie them together, then we end up warping the big picture inside our minds.
The whole of the universe is a term we can easily hold inside our heads. But put your name on an envelope, address, city, country, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe, and hand the envelope to the postal person, then this person will tell us that Universe does nothing at all on that envelope; it does not give direction.
