What Is Space Actually On? What is the canvas?

[JoeyVimsanteThePoet]

What is Space actually made of?
I do not mean the atoms, baryonic matter, planets, dust, moons, or plasma that make up the Universe?
I mean what is holding these physical structures of mass.
I am not talking about atoms, gas, energy. I am talking about what is the basic structure we are all on.
I am specifically talking about what the matter and energy is in or on.
Like if you see a painting or drawing. You look at what the drawing is of.
But what is the ink or paint on? What is the canvass made of?--
The question we need to ask ourselves is what are we as mass, such as the planets, and the vacuum of space on?
For instance we are 1 astronomical unit from the Sun.
We are 150 million kilometres from the Sun.
And some would say there is nothing between the Earth and the Sun. Just a near perfect vacuum, with virtually nothing between us.
But that is not what I am asking. I am asking what is holding that vacuum. On another level what is the vacuum of 150 million miles on.
You cannot have 150 million miles of nothing. I know you will say it is a vacuum. But what is that vacuum on.
I mean if you had a mile of space on Earth. Yes it might be containing matter, such as oxygen, rocks, oceans, clouds, humans, animals, and plants. But if you had a mile of outer space. There might be a near perfect vacuum. But it is still 1 mile of space. The same distance both times.
So the thing is. Surely the 1 mile of near perfect space and 1 mile of Earth, are the same distance. So what is holding that 1 miles of space whether it be a near perfect vacuum or as on Earth containing huge amounts of matter.
The actual structure that holds 1 mile of vacuum space and 1 mile of matter, must be the same thing,
So what is that is holding the 1 mile of space and 1 mile of Earth matter.
I know the Universe contains mass, energy, matter. But what is it on?
This is a vital philosophical and scientific question.
1 mile of mass and 1 mile of space vacuum, are both the same distance. What are they both on?
It is as if we are people painted on a canvas that tells a story or landscape. On one level you can as an art critic try to explain the story that the painting is telling. But to make that work of art you must know what we are made. Are we paint, or are we layers of different paint on a canvas? And what is that canvas made of? A canvas with no paint on it, is the same distance as a canvas with a beautiful landscape or mythical scene.

 

[ASHES]

Space-time is the fabric of reality.

 

[Rogue Valley]

It turns out that Baryonic matter (you and I and everything we see) only comprises 5% of our universe.

Most of our universe is comprised of dark energy (68%/unknown) and dark matter (26%/unknown).

 

[Slavister]

If our world is a simulation, then I guess most of space that is actually present and everything in it is made of informational bits of the creators' system.

 

[Binary_Digit]

What is Space actually made of?
I do not mean the atoms, baryonic matter, planets, dust, moons, or plasma that make up the Universe?
I mean what is holding these physical structures of mass.
I am not talking about atoms, gas, energy. I am talking about what is the basic structure we are all on.
I am specifically talking about what the matter and energy is in or on.
Like if you see a painting or drawing. You look at what the drawing is of.
But what is the ink or paint on? What is the canvass made of?--
The question we need to ask ourselves is what are we as mass, such as the planets, and the vacuum of space on?
For instance we are 1 astronomical unit from the Sun.
We are 150 million kilometres from the Sun.
And some would say there is nothing between the Earth and the Sun. Just a near perfect vacuum, with virtually nothing between us.
But that is not what I am asking. I am asking what is holding that vacuum. On another level what is the vacuum of 150 million miles on.
You cannot have 150 million miles of nothing. I know you will say it is a vacuum. But what is that vacuum on.
I mean if you had a mile of space on Earth. Yes it might be containing matter, such as oxygen, rocks, oceans, clouds, humans, animals, and plants. But if you had a mile of outer space. There might be a near perfect vacuum. But it is still 1 mile of space. The same distance both times.
So the thing is. Surely the 1 mile of near perfect space and 1 mile of Earth, are the same distance. So what is holding that 1 miles of space whether it be a near perfect vacuum or as on Earth containing huge amounts of matter.
The actual structure that holds 1 mile of vacuum space and 1 mile of matter, must be the same thing,
So what is that is holding the 1 mile of space and 1 mile of Earth matter.
I know the Universe contains mass, energy, matter. But what is it on?
This is a vital philosophical and scientific question.
1 mile of mass and 1 mile of space vacuum, are both the same distance. What are they both on?
It is as if we are people painted on a canvas that tells a story or landscape. On one level you can as an art critic try to explain the story that the painting is telling. But to make that work of art you must know what we are made. Are we paint, or are we layers of different paint on a canvas? And what is that canvas made of? A canvas with no paint on it, is the same distance as a canvas with a beautiful landscape or mythical scene.

Yeah, they just don't know yet.

Back in Einstein's days, they were convinced that there must be some sort of "Aether" that serves as the medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate. But they measured the speed of light in perpendicular directions (Michaelson/Morrisey, I think it was), and were expecting to observe slowdowns caused by the Aether, but they didn't detect any such thing. So the concept of the Aether was scrapped, and the notion that electromagnetic waves don't require a medium was born.

But we know that gravity is the "spacetime continuum" getting stretched, warped, and bent by mass, and we know that gravity can propagate like a wave. So IMO there must be some sort of "substance" that's providing a medium for both gravitational and electromagnetic waves to propagate, but they just haven't been able to isolate and fully characterize it yet. Although I'm not aware of any school of thought that supposes the spacetime continuum to be comprised of dark matter and dark energy. Those are concepts that came about simply because certain things don't properly add up otherwise.

 

[Lisa]

It turns out that Baryonic matter (you and I and everything we see) only comprises 5% of our universe.

Most of our universe is comprised of dark energy (68%/unknown) and dark matter (26%/unknown).

Id bre suprised that it is 5%. I'd be more likely to learn it is .5%. Space is shockingly cold and empty.

 

[Exquisitor]

On the Singularity of the event horizon.

Between two singularities.

Three such bands within a Singularity, above a Singularity.

 

[Exquisitor]

Dimension, the constant diameter of the Singularity, the diameter of the electron and the diameter of the two critical mass event horizon.

 

[Exquisitor]

Space is nothing but layers of Singularity each event horizon a new constant collection of mass.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Id bre suprised that it is 5%. I'd be more likely to learn it is .5%. Space is shockingly cold and empty.

It really is ~5%. But you are right about the emptyness of space.

If one looks at space on the whole, it resembles a spiders web on a black background.

Galaxy's are arranged in galactic filaments (the spiders web) with vast distances between these filaments.

No one is quite sure why this is so. But science does know that dark matter plays a critical role in the formation of galaxies.

 

[Lisa]

It really is ~5%. But you are right about the emptyness of space.

If one looks at space on the whole, it resembles a spiders web on a black background.

Galaxy's are arranged in galactic filaments (the spiders web) with vast distances between these filaments.

No one is quite sure why this is so. But science does know that dark matter plays a critical role in the formation of galaxies.

We know very little about dark matter or dark energy. That is the next big hurdle of astrophysics. We know it exists but that is about all we know.

 

[Rogue Valley]

We know very little about dark matter or dark energy. That is the next big hurdle of astrophysics. We know it exists but that is about all we know.

It apears that black holes also play a crucial role in galaxy formation, but no one knows exactly how or why just yet.

Virtually every galaxy seems to have a black hole at its approximate galactic center. For the Milky Way, that would be Sagittarius A*.

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