BlackMatters
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Real question, can you?
Real question, can you?
Real question, can you?
What is, the Space? The space between molecules? The space between many people's ears? The space that occupies a pregnant pause?
Do you know what an axiom is? Real question.
Space exists, because it has to exist for you to exist in it to pose the question.
But has anything really traveled through space? How do you know this?
But has anything really traveled through space? How do you know this?
I contend that there is no space. That every pocket of area is filled. With something. Dark matter? Maybe. All mass, all area, in the universe, is filled.
With something.
But has anything really traveled through space? How do you know this?
Umm....well, no, because you need something like a neutron star for something close to that.
Anyway, what is "filled" by this mass/energy you postulate other than space? Riiiiight. Even if everything was matter, that matter would be occupying space.
But you may still be accidentally correct. "Dark Matter" is the fudge that helps cosmology/etc account for the state of the universe. There needs to be that much mass - or that much of something else with mass-like effects - to account for it.
Meanwhile "dark energy" accounts for the increasing rate of expansion of the universe. Again, it's another fudge. But it would fit your criteria in that it would exist in all space. The debate appears to be about whether it's in cosmological constant form or scalar field form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
But, simply put, it would occupy all of the space that exists if it exists.
But has anything really traveled through space? How do you know this?
Far as know, I'm the only one conscious....all the rest of you are just programs to fool me into believing I'm not alone.Depends on how deep we want to dig. We could be living in a computer simulation, in which case the only thing I can know with absolute certainty is that consciousness exists.
But setting that speculation aside, it is also possible that at scales beyond our ability to measure, there is no such thing as empty space.
Outerspace.
There is of course quantum foam.Umm....well, no, because you need something like a neutron star for something close to that.
Anyway, what is "filled" by this mass/energy you postulate other than space? Riiiiight. Even if everything was matter, that matter would be occupying space.
But you may still be accidentally correct. "Dark Matter" is the fudge that helps cosmology/etc account for the state of the universe. There needs to be that much mass - or that much of something else with mass-like effects - to account for it.
Meanwhile "dark energy" accounts for the increasing rate of expansion of the universe. Again, it's another fudge. But it would fit your criteria in that it would exist in all space. The debate appears to be about whether it's in cosmological constant form or scalar field form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
But, simply put, it would occupy all of the space that exists if it exists.
You can see the sun, can't you?
There is of course quantum foam.
Space and time are just innate mental templates hardwired in the human mind serving to order human experience.
They don't really exist, or rather they exist in our experience of reality because our minds put them there.
See Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
Citing scientific theory to dismiss the OP question is merely a perfervid expression of faith in scientific mythology -- the various tentative man-made templates teased out of experience by means of the trial-and-error scientific method.
And this is carried on here by the very ones who dismiss the Bible as mythology in discussions! It's risible really.
Call to mind your feelings about someone quoting the Bible to you in a discussion. That's exactly how anyone who's thought philosophically about space and time feels about your quoting science as regards the OP question.