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Nature provides us "simple" hints about the nature of space!
- One cannot see let alone touch space!
- Yet let us consider two distinct stars within our milky way galaxy; something that is then invisible and untouchable has to be there in between the two, because if there were nothing the two would be in contact.1
- In a nutshell we human do not know what is space but we must conclude that something makes space, just to keep the celestial bodies separated from each other!
- At least we know that gravitation "exists" in space; why would gravitation not be either an ingredient of space or space itself?
- While we neither see nor feel space (a hint that induces us in believing that space is empty):
- First, giving it a thought (above), we discover that space is something because something has to separate stars from stars and galaxies from galaxies.
- Then we do feel the force of gravitation, a second hint of mother nature that indicates that either there is something in space or space is made of something.
- So we can confidently claim that space is a volume that is either occupied by someting or a volume made of something.
Physics' concept of space is literally out of this world!
- One of physics interpretation of space
In physics space is proven (first) to be absolute vacuum or absolutely empty
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- The famous experiments of Michelson and Morley of the late 1800’s proved "beyond any doubt" that light travels in absolute vacuum.
- Since then physicists calculated that due to their speed should light waves travel through a medium, as sound waves do through air, that medium would have to be solid!
- So in physics "space" is an absolute vacuum made of nothing!
- And here is physics opposite interpretation of space
But in physics space is also filled with frantic energy!
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- Yet a (huge) controversy of physics is that the "quantum vacuum" is nothing but nothing!
- The quantum vacuum is instead filled with frantic energy, out of which material-particle / imaginary-anti-particle pairs can emerge.
- Let's face it, physicists cannot have it both ways!
Space cannot be "absolute vacuum" to transmit light and "full of energy" to satisfy quantum theory!
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- Space in physics is another of those "dualities" that physicists acquit themselves with too easily!
- And whether you are a layperson as this writer is or a scientist/physicist, the science of physics doesn't help you much!
- Simply speaking, the science of physics doesn't answer the question: What is space?
Yet there is a simple solution
- There is a simple, yet pragmatic solution to physics's dilemma!
- And that is a brand new interpretation of Nature, which name is gravimotion.
- Click: In Gravimotion, Motion is the Physical Alternate to Space
- For your information, gravimotion's interpretation of Nature doesn't follow the path chosen in theoretical physics.
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Note 1
The idea that two stars that are apart, have to be separated by something else than empty space is very clever!
I mention that cleverness because I did not myself think of it before reading about it!
Furthermore the idea fits in a different way my own idea that space is made of "motion" (gravimotion).
I first read about the idea that two stars apart in space, are separated by something, in the website: coloradan.tripod.com/edstheoryofeverything
Gravimotion's interpretation of space differs greatly from that site's interpretation though.
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