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What is Space?

-- | June 23, 2016

Question: What is space? What is it that can expand, warp, etc.  — Doug

Answer: This is a very difficult question to answer.  Space is not a “thing” or something that you can associate with “substance”.  One way to describe space is to think of it as a three-dimensional construct within which the Universe exists.  A perhaps more practical definition of space would be that which you can measure with a distance measuring device (like a tape measure), such as the distance between two objects.

Jeff Mangum