[humanbydefault]

Resuming then:

If we accept that TIME was nothing more than a human-conceived tool allowing us [helping us] to measure a given physical process in the universe... from the rising of the sun in the East side of the Earth to the scattering of energy from atomic decay... why should we mix space with it? and also... what's space that seems to be something a lot different than what we have assumed until now?

Conditioning SPACE with a progressive and relativistic unit of "time" only makes things worse, in my humble opinion.
To understand why Einstein decided to engage both concepts into just one, we need to re-discover the true concept of SPACE all together.
Let's go back to our classical example of asynchronism between the two clocks [one on board a satellite and a second on the surface of the Earth].

The only thing I'm asking you is to use some common sense in the analysis... please.
If both clocks were "ticking" the same way, which means that the "time interval" measured by both independently of the actual physical distance between both of them was perfect... [using atomic clocks and other more sophisticated types too]... then:

Why should be any of those clocks showing us a differential in the reading?
Do you agree with me that those clocks were measuring what we could call REALITY?

Reality, existence or a any name you which to asign... in fact it its the topography of the eather. We can't blame SPACE for the shape "shifting" and much less TIME to be able to contract itself or shrink just to fit with our equation's results.

So! If we accept that it was a energy-mass density change in a region of space what resulted in that asymmetry affecting both clocks, we will have to redefine Einstein's views and make it better.

You see...! Einstein begun his assumptions by subconciously accepting some sort of universal reality. Reality for him and to the rest of the scientific community is something that prevails in the entire universe at once. To make possible the understanding of why those TIME discrepancies took place in his calculations [and in true life as in the satellite-earth conflict] he conceived SPACE and TIME as absolute dimensions interacting in a relative manner... what he called relativity later on.

For Einstein and [why not?] for most of you here in this forum, SPACE is something that is out-there and could perfectly be taken for granted. For him and most of you too, Time has [ALSO] other possible meaning other than a simple measuring tool used by our intelect as humans in trying to make sense of the universe's evolutionary process.

The only thing REAL enough to me, the way I see it and am trying to bring to you in images is the eather. It is a changing and non-uniform distribution of energy and mass along the shape of this expanding universe.

What's fascinating to me [I think I had said it before...] is that the actual structure of the universe >>> IN LAYERS<<< or scales as some physicists have call them is what's responsible for matter to acquire its physcial properties. Without stars and solar systems matter as the way we see it [including us] couldn't be formed in its different states: solids, liquids, gases, and plasma.

HUMANBYDEFAULT