Reference: Essays on Substance
Substance & Space
The classical understanding of Space is as follows:
Space is that part of the universe that does not contain matter. We assess dimensions in space the same way that we measure the dimensions of matter. Therefore, space is an abstraction of the dimensions of matter.
In light of The Spectrum of Substance, the dimensions of substance can be measured in terms of wavelengths. This gives us an actual “spectrum of space” that accompanies the spectrum of substance. We can visualize matter floating in a sea of energy, and energy floating in a sea of aether. Space expands as consistency decreases. For an infinite wavelength the consistency of substance would be extremely thin. With this understanding of space there is no such thing as void.
Space (wavelength) provides an index of how expansive a certain substance is. Its inverse, consistency (frequency) provides an index of how condensed a certain substance is.
The concept of velocity in free space is essentially a state of balance between motion and inertia of a particle. The product of velocity and inertia (mass, consistency) provides the momentum that can be sensed. Acceleration occurs when motion and inertia of a particle fall out of balance.
Newtonian physics assumes matter and space to be absolute and independent of each other. Space is viewed as “absence of matter” or void.
Einsteinian physics views space to be abstraction of the dimensions of matter. If matter can expand, contract, twist and bend, then so can space.
But matter has a spectrum as substance; and space is real property of that substance. Space is neither absolute nor an abstraction.
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