I'm looking up there because I'm wondering how the universe is put together. It must be some simple way, I figure, since God had so little to work with when He built the Universe.. He must have started with something basic then made everything else from that.
Of course, that is about as arrogant an assumption as you can make--a mere mortal trying to figure out God's business. But, still, I'm curious; and God made my curiousity too. So I'm standing there stargazing,, with certain knowledge that I am not the first mortal to do so. And it occurs to me that those glittery stars would not exist if not for black, voluminous ocean of space between them. It bucomes perfectly clear that Space is as significant a part of God's handy work as the Stars themselves. In fact, neither could exist without the other...making their coexistence the most fundamental aspect of their existence.
CO-EXISTENCE PRECEDES EXISTENCE.
It's a Taoist notion; which is encouraging as far as being on the right track. It is difficult (if not 'impossible') to imagine any principal more fundamental than this one, when it come to the study of any subject. That is, the nature--properties or behavior--of the subject under study may be influenced by the thing(s) it coexists with. Einstein's
...exemplifies the principal nicely. "Matter," it says, "curves space; while curved space tells matter how to move."
