Is space merely the absence of matter?

Increasingly leading particle physicists are coming to a point of view that space is emergent, that it is the fabric woven by the underlying quantum microstates and their entanglement. Most of this entanglement, the vast bulk of the information co... read more

The amount of (baryonic) matter is deduced to be less than 5℅ of the universe's mass-energy. But phycists don't define space as rest of the 95℅ for the same reason as you won't define the sack as lack of potatoes. read more

A vacuum is a mere absence of matter. Space is a vacuum because in its large (LARGE LARGE LARGE) volume, whatever matter is there, collapses together under gravity to form clusters, galaxies, star systems as we know it. The remaining volume is mostly empty, and hence the vacuum. read more