I have been working on my study of Kant…
Kant seems to have made his base, his starting
point, space and time……
the question of space and time has confused a whole lot of people
since the beginning of time…….
one question that has been asked and is key to Kant is,
is space real? does space have a physical reality to it?
and I believe the answer is yes…….
space is a physical object like my table or myself……
think about a black hole… where gravity is so strong that
nothing can escape it, not even light…… but can space escape it?
I would say no… if I was able to exist right at the opening
of a black hole and there was no other matter coming at me,
would I feel the, for lack of a better word here, the pressure coming
from space itself? now think of an concept like pressure…
we cannot see pressure but if we were to go on another planet
like Jupiter and be able to set foot on the “ground” (yes, knowing it
is most likely that Jupiter doesn’t have a ground as we know it)
but anyway, if I step out, the pressure would crush me…
and yet, I cannot with my senses detect the presence
of pressure outside of that stuff up feeling we get during
weather changes……… we can’t see it or hear it or smell it or taste
or touch it, but it is there……. we cannot reach out our hand and
touch pressure ……… but during an Hurricane, we can feel with our bodies
the changing pressure… but you can’t reach out and touch it…
it presses down upon you and you feel that pressure, but you cannot
move that pressure away from you……… space is like pressure……
it can press down upon you but you cannot reach out and touch it……
space can be move like in a black hole or with the mass of a large star……
it exists……. we just don’t have the tools right now to measure it or
to touch it…… but we touch it every single day… space can bend
and that bending shows us that space does exist in physical form…….
so what is space made up off? it is a special rule object in the
physical universe? if we have multiverses, then do we have
more then one type of space? I would say yes………
just as we have multi dimensions, we can have multi space……
each dimension can be another type of space…………
we can think of dimensions as another form of space……
do I know this by “intuition”? I can know this by simply understanding
that I exist in one type of space and there is the possibility of another
type of space that can exist…take information we gained via
experience and then extrapolate it to the possibility of
other experiences……………….
now some philosophers would suggest that I arrived at the possibility
of different spaces via “intuition” or a priori……….but I simply
used the space I already know by experiences, and asked,
what if there is another space? That I cannot know by experience,
as of now, but within the realm of possibility I can know by experience at
some later date……………….
let us look at something basic… a triangle…
did we begin to discover the triangle by first knowing
that the sum of the measure of the interior angles of a triangle
in Euclidian space is always 180 degree’s
or did we create or find a triangle and then we figured out that
the sum of the triangle was the sum of the measure of the interior
angles in Euclidian space is always 180 degree’s?
I contend that we had the triangle first and then from there
found out the measurements and not the other way around where
we had the measurements and then found out the shape of the
triangle……… we “discovered” what we know about the triangle from
the triangle itself, we had the experience and then, and then discovered
the information about the triangle…
we experienced the triangle and then found out the information we
needed and the same goes for space…… we experienced space and
then we are finding out the information we need as we go along…
Kropotkin