| | Sorry for hijacking this thread. I don't think anyone else is interested and maybe this should be done privately. However, I'll try it again. We'll go backwards.
Consider, say, five points (not true points, but matter, that have area) aligned horizontally with the first point on the left. The horizontal line through the center of the points is a reference line, or axis, not to be confused with anything we draw. At the left most part of point 1 on the reference line put your pencil down. Proceed to enclose the top half of the first point up to where the reference line intersects the far end of point 1. Draw a straight line to the left most point of point 2 where the reference line intersects it. Enclose the top half of the second in the same manner as you did the first, and so on until you've enclosed the top half of the fifth (last) point.
Now go in reverse, completing the enclosing of the fifth point by going around its bottom to the point where the reference line intersects it on the front. This is also the point where a line was drawn from the fourth point to the fifth point. Go to the back of the fourth point by retracing the former line and finish enclosing the fourth point, etc., until you end up at the right end of the first point.
You now have a string of five points each connected by two coincident lines. Now we can disperse the points by moving them to positions that resemble the dispersion of actual matter in the universe. Everything within the boundary we have drawn encloses everything in the universe and everything outside that boundary does not exist.
What I was describing before is the same process but I didn't put the points in a straight line first, but it's easier to describe that way. Also, in my former description I made the string a closed loop. It wasn't erroneous but it was harder to understand and wasn't necessary.
In any case, 'space' doesn't exist because it isn't in the universe.
Sam
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