SPACE AND TIME

Space and time do not exist.  They are artificial constructs man has invented to help him explain and define his world.  For something to physically exist, it must be measurable.  Neither space nor time meets this criterion. 

Removing all the air from a vessel produces a vacuum.  The extent of the vacuum is defined by its container.  The vacuum itself cannot be measured.  There is nothing to measure.  It is the same with space. 

A metronome within a steel vault, shielded from variations in external sounds or temperatures, can be set to sixty seconds per minute.  This would permit someone within the vault to determine when an hour had elapsed.  Making the device go slightly slower or slightly faster would lead the person to believe an hour had gone by when, in fact, the time span would have been, respectively, longer or shorter.  In this situation, the metronome is not measuring time, it is time’s determinant.

Consider a place far away from the outermost edge of our universe, completely devoid of light, heat, or any form of debris or radiation.  Space and time are not in evidence here.  There is only a complete, continuous vacuum.  A very large, inert sphere is introduced.  This produces a gravitational field that can be detected at some distance.  Measurable space has made an appearance.  It is the area around the sphere that is impacted in any way by its presence.

Within our universe, distances are computed between Earth and the planets, or between our solar system and nearby galaxies.  Electronic telescopes can detect extremely distant stars.  For us, space is the entire area bounded by the furthest realms of the universe. 

The object that has been positioned far beyond the influence of our universe exists in a timeless state.  The sphere is removed and replaced with an atomic clock that displays Earth minutes.  An observer would be able to count the Earth hours spent in the proximity of the clock.  This gives rise to the sensation that time is passing.    

On Earth, there is no aspect of time that does not involve some natural phenomenon or mechanical device.  Man first began determining chronological events by counting the days in a year and the hours in a day.  The Earth’s rotations around the sun and its revolutions are the basis of all of time’s measurements.