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What is space?

"space" is room to ride a wave without some wa+ker trying to get in your way.

... and why can I move in any direction in space, but only forwards in time?

…space is like gold at the gybe mark.

It's not anything. There is stuff "in" space, like matter and radiation, but space is not anything. At all.

Think big bang (one theory). You've got everything in the universe tightly packed into this little, little bundle of joy. Outside that is space, nothing, nada. Then kaboom or whatever and matter spreads out.

Space is used to describe the holes that are now between stuff.

I think though, that the term "space" can mean different things to different people.

What freaks me out though is that when you look very, very closely at an object it is mostly, by far, empty space. As in the space between the electrons. When two object touch do they really touch? <puts reefer down>

DavMen said...

Easy - space is "Nothing"

If it is nothing, why does it have a name?
You only give something a name when it exists.

DavMen said...

They gave it a name before they reailised it was nothing.

i'm finding it hard to argue with that one.

Gestalt said...

something that has no beginning or end.

I thought it was time that has no beginning or end[}:)]

My brain is starting to hurt!

I think some of you guys are wrong, out side the big bang there was nothing, agreed, but that includes space!!!!
As I understand it, space-time doesn't exist out side the expanding bubble produced by the big bang.
There is a boundary to this universe, inside it is space, outside doesn't exist, not even space

Doesn't it wrap around Pac-man style? So if you reached the end you'd pop into existence on the other side?

Or if it doesn't wrap around then if you hit the edge you wouldn't be able to exist outside... sort of like trying to drag your mouse outside the computer screen, with no pixels to display it the cursor doesn't exist.

That God bloke is a clever fellow

it could be time that has no beginning or end but i thought space has been around as long as time has been around.

our universe may increase and decrease over time but space and time will continue????

well in terms of art and architecture space has no beginning and end and is what defines the objects within it.

does the end of the universe define the limit of space? i would say no as the universe is expanding into space.

DL said...

... and why can I move in any direction in space, but only forwards in time?

you cant move down in space

Since there is no up or down Space must be 2D as you can only move in two directions - towards something and away from something

the plan is afoot to create more "space"......

decrepit said...

No No No No.

I think I was wrong to talk about boundaries, on second thoughts I don't think there are any.
But the universe is finite, without a boundary. (That's why you end up where you started from and can't fall of the edge, there isn't one)
It's expanding but not into anything!
There's nothing outside it, not even space!!!!
Space is something!
It's part of space-time and the universe.

^ What he said, (the three dimensions of) space-time.

Hey maybe everything is not actually expanding, but just getting smaller?

theDoctor said...


the plan is afoot to create more "space"......

The plan is already working...reduction in funding into healthcare, and the result being - more deaths due to inefficiency and understaffing of the HC system...

Back to the topic though...

...nerds.