(October 17, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:Fair enough. To be honest, I learn toward idealism, so in that context, space isn't really a thing, but rather a rule about how ideas about things are related to each other.(October 17, 2016 at 8:27 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Hmmmmm. . . this game sounds fun. Lemme see. . .
I'd say its dominant quality is that it seems actually to exist. There are things arranged in space, and they do stuff over time. No, wait, that's too many qualities, when you clearly want a single one.
Let's go with it seeming actually to exist.
See that's why I love these simple questions and other people's perspective. I would have listed the dominant aspect of the universe as we find it as "empty" space. We've covered the space vs matter ratio of atoms, yes? The universe "exists" (to our subjective biological sensors) because the space for photon travel, an observer and something for the photon to bounce off of, also exist.
What a physical space is actually blows the mind if I think about it too much, especially when you start thinking about relativity, QM etc.