Jud Evans

                                                         

Much, if not most of modern physics is no more than a form of metaphysics employing fictive elements of mensuration [number, space, time, motion etc] through which important aspects of what is real are investigated and understood. The objective universe consists only of moving matter. What we refer to a 'space' is simply the variance or differential between the material characteristics or forms of that matter, which as humans we can detect, and the formations of that matter that we infer exists, [dark matter] and other matter, which at this stage in our scientific development with our modern instrumentation we cannot detect.


     The suggestion being made here is that there is no 'space' between 'objects.'
That which keeps objects apart is not 'force' or 'energy, ' but forceful, energetic objects.

Basically the claim being made here is that there is no existential duality between an object and the actions of that object. The 'movement' of this moving arm does not exist - only the moving arm exists.  It is the use of language which confuses us into believing that 'action' exists - it is a confusion going back to the Greeks. In reality only active objects  exist. Having  difficulty in  grasping  the  concept? Take another look - Do you think that the arm's 'movement' exists, or just the moving arm exists in different spatial positions? If we cannot  physically or ideationally separate the so-called  'movement' of the arm from the arm itself, why needlessly mystify science by abstracting the object's  existential modality away from the object?

        No magical, invisible, spiritual 'energy' or 'power' or 'force' exists – it is a primitive myth – only energetic objects can be found in the cosmos. Hence the 75% that is left over after the 4% actual matter and the 21% dark matter that some scientists refer to as 'dark energy' must also consist of dark energetic entities.

      Here on earth we are aware that all space within the earth's atmosphere is filled with gaseous atoms [oxygen] and the clouds of electrons [photons] that the sun has spewed forth in all directions. There is no 'space' between you and the screen at which you look. There are only different kinds of objects [atoms of gas etc.] However, once we depart from the earth's envelope, we are aware only of space objects, our space vehicle, stars, comets, asteroids and debris and of the photonic clouds that exist in 'space' [otherwise we would see no stars or other objects when we looked through the spaceship window.]

      We can only speculate as to the precise physical nature of the soup of 'dark matter' that fills the universe by being aware of its presence in a similar deductive manner of inferences from general principles in a similar way to the fashion that we know that some stars have unseen twins by observing the regular and predictable perturbation of the visible star body.

     It follows that if 'space' does not exist, then when one moving material spatio co-ordinational element of the cosmic-soup changes its position, the 'takeover' can only be via a process of displacement, amalgamation or absorption of that given spatial area of the cosmic holism. Therefore such processes can be characterised as the mode or manner in which the cosmic super-holism exists in conformity with the physical constraints ['laws' in anthropo-speak] of the existential imperative, and NOT so-called  'causality.'

       The rest is anthropocentric interpretation arrived at on the basis of the creation of useful abstractions like speed, motion, number, time and other helpful fictions.

                                             The Ontological Bottom Line?

This brass metal number six you fix to your front door exists, but the 'idea' of 'number six' does 'not exist. What exists is you thinking about the 'number six'. Only that which is numbered or counted exists, or that which was originally numbered by mankind and from which [historically] the idea of number was developed. Mankind's need to invent numbers arose from a desire to keep track of his possessions (goats, stones, grains of corn etc), and to measure distances and to record and calculate the intervals between events [the passing of 'time'.]

The things to be counted came first, the names and symbols for 'how many?' - the abstract numbers which came later themselves do not exist.

                                    Only human numerators or enumerators exist

    Such ideations or names for actions such  as those above, and any other abstract nouns or gerunds that you can possibly think of are nothing more than the helpful fictions we have evolved to enable us to understand and interact with the world in which we find ourselves.