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Originally Posted by dleviwing

Mass is a “MEASUREMENT”; so is motion; so is energy; so is time. Matter is an “ENTITY”. The question is: “Does mass truly represent a measure of the physical quantity of something?” Once you establish the absolute fundamentals, no cause can be determined beyond that point; this is where we can only say that the fundamentals have always existed and still exist today; their total quantities are the same now as they were 15 billion years ago.

I've read your blog, Dave, and understand scientific absolutes. The point is, however, philosophy has a different interpretation of absolute that extends the limited definition of science to render a single quantity. So the First-Philosophy absolute is synonymous to absolute matter, space, time, mass, etc., and it renders the scientific interpretation as being relative. Science isn't wrong, it is just limited to measuring time-dependent quantities and for this reason most scientists have no time concerning themselves with the absolute entity you referred us to. Like you said, it is not a measurement - cannot be measured - and I propose it is the essential meeting point of absolute solidity and vacuity. At that point both seeming opposites are the identical impenetrable state of absolute space, similar to the zero-point energy at both ends of the Energy Spectrum.

When we use a little imagination, we can use t=0 as the carrier cause of measured forces, where time must then be the sole factor in creating the time-dependent quantities of relative motion, mass, energy, charges, etc.. The absolute - total of all relative quantities - is changless because it has no time, and this is where and why there is a problem with equating an eternal existence of relative fundamentals (time and time-dependent quantities continuing forever) with the absolute entity (timeless non existence). The inclusion of the mathematical zero was imo the greatest achievement in theoretical and philosophical science, because it can lead to the realization that this non number is representative of the absolute container of the universe - any and all quanta and qualia can be extracted without changing the absolute state; and in this way we can properly unify Newton's and Einstein's theories. QM and QG are merely infinitesimal extensions of this unification.

Explanations for the proclamation of existential space expanding into an absolute void that isn't there, or a void that is some unknown substance or dimension, have been unsatisfactory. The models are flawed, and the reason I propose is re: above, the absolute-zero point as the cause of the continual creation and annihilation - conversion - of mass and energy has always been neglected. It is an impossibility to quantitatively measure motion, mass, etc., without it being relative to non-existent boundaries; but it is equally impossible to make quantitative measurements relative to non-existent boundaries in the literal sense, and therefore we must use non-particulate abstract positions from zero-dimesnional point A radially-extended to an infinite number of other zero-dimensional positions, which produces by default an infinite number of relative velocities.