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zeynel  ·  5293 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A thought-experiment about matter, space, and time.
"The more particles in a system the more complex the relationships for particles, space and time become."

With this sentence, suddenly you are equating, with no justification, particle==matter; distance==space; and period==time. What is measurable is distance and period or an interval of time. It is typical of scholastic physics to confuse measurement of something with that something; this is the reification of labels (or the reification of coordinate axes, a standard practice in physics); and you might explain how you justify this assumption in your thought experiment. You might want to state in the beginning if you propose to understand (or define) the world by measurement. http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/what-is-our-worldvi... Because it is possible to define the world in many different ways.