New edgy thread

Hmmm . . .

So the universe sits on or in a substrate called space, what do you think this stuff 'space' is ? Does it physically exist ?

And time can exist not just as a measure of change but in it's own right ? Again this raises the same question, what then is this 'stuff' you call time ? Does it physically exist ?

why not? i mean, the earth sits in its place in the universe, why not the universe sit in its place in something else? like russian dolls. im not sure i believe it, but i dont see why it couldnt be true. we cant measure and dont know everything.

time, the word and its meaning is a human construct of course, used to understand and measure the changes around us in the world, yes. but although time might be irrelevant in a vacuum of nothing, i would argue that it still passes. if you were to creat a vacuum in a lab, it wouldnt signal the ceassation of time. just its relevance in that vacuum. so even if our universe ends up in the big crunch into nothing, time would still pass, though not measuring or signalling change in that universe (where it would be irrelevant), in the possible bigger russian doll that surrounds our universe, time is still passing and still be relevant, (er, or not.)

regardless, i suppose my bottom line is that i dont hold the view that time is only there when change is, but that time is only relevant when change occurs.