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Time, space, change, speed, matter, causality, mass, physical, entropy, and energy are all the same thing but we use different words to represent aspects of it.

Change is the universal substrate of Actuality - undifferentiated stuff.
Physical means change that's in our range of bodily manipulation.
Time is measured change - relative to our experience. Speed is relative change in a physical sense.
Space in the sense of empty is change happening at levels beyond our direct experience. Otherwise it's just that same undifferentiated stuff.
Energy is waves of change that move quickly and matter is slow, entangled, high-entropy energy.
Entropy is a measure of how likely something is to change.
Causality is just another way of saying change happens in one direction.
Mass is best understood as resistance to change.

bonus:
Cosmic expansion is best understood as the thickening of the substrate of change.
The speed of light is best understood as a limitation of that substrate.
The universe is infinite in all directions, at all scales.
Identical versions of the same pattern never happen - different patterns always happen. Nothing ever repeats exactly - there are only levels of similarity.

I don't know how gravity fits in yet. Something like another word for how mass works, like bubbles of change resistance attracting one another.

Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:12 am Time, space, change, speed, matter, causality, mass, physical, entropy, and energy are all the same thing but we use different words to represent aspects of it.

Note mainstream science has not yet figured to couple space and time.
If/when doing this, instead of a 3D x, y, z + time t,
"time" must be in/as the constituency of x, y and z.

It is for this reason "time" is not a "4th" dimension, it is actually merely
reciprocal to space as it (they) concern(s) motion
as measured in/as a velocity and/or associated energy.

What follows from this is because space has 3 dimensions, time also has 3 dimensions.
The three dimensions of each are due to three shared space/time-invariant "scalar" magnitudes
which governs the expansion/gravitation constants and then an "everything in between" coupling constant.

In reality this is actually Φ² ± Φ = 1, Φ³ wherein
1 is the expansion/speed of light (rational),
Φ³ is the gravitation/speed of "causality" (irrational)
Φ is the golden ratio (concerns the 1, √Φ, Φ "Kepler" triangle) and
Φ² is Φ + 1 (rational discretion) which is the "everything in between".

Note obviously mainstream science doesn't know of this relationship,
but space and time are as yang and yin: they are each multiplicative
reciprocal aspects of motion, wherein motion and energy are
"two sides of the same coin".

Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:12 am Change is the universal substrate of Actuality - undifferentiated stuff.
Physical means change that's in our range of bodily manipulation.
Time is measured change - relative to our experience. Speed is relative change in a physical sense.
Space in the sense of empty is change happening at levels beyond our direct experience. Otherwise it's just that same undifferentiated stuff.
Energy is waves of change that move quickly and matter is slow, entangled, high-entropy energy.
Entropy is a measure of how likely something is to change.
Causality is just another way of saying change happens in one direction.
Mass is best understood as resistance to change.

bonus:
Cosmic expansion is best understood as the thickening of the substrate of change.
The speed of light is best understood as a limitation of that substrate.
The universe is infinite in all directions, at all scales.
Identical versions of the same pattern never happen - different patterns always happen. Nothing ever repeats exactly - there are only levels of similarity.

I don't know how gravity fits in yet. Something like another word for how mass works, like bubbles of change resistance attracting one another.

Gravity is a 3D inward motion (ie. acceleration) according to the constituency
(ie. "gravity") of a body, hence Φ³ is a/the gravitational constant. The only constituency
of the universe is motion which has two reciprocal aspects: space and time.

Irrational numbers refer to arcs or curves (ie. circles), whereas rational numbers refer to lines.
Respectively the imaginary and real number systems/axes reflect this same relationship,
though again, mainstream science does not know of this explicit relationship either.