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<i>I was planning on writing a post about dance games again but I lost motivation for it and decided to write about something else that had been on my mind instead. I'll do the dance game post later, but felt like writing about something else today</i>

## <center>What is space?</center> ##
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When we are asked this question, we consider a number of similar things that are congruous with what 'space' means. Sometimes we think of space in a room - a room is 'spacious' when it is empty - we literally 'fill' a room with something called 'space', otherwise, it is incomprehensible to us. Our minds cannot possibly imagine what true emptiness is, because to do so, we would need to annihilate our minds and consciousnesses from all existence, which is something we cannot do.

Space is something akin to nothingness, but really it is not nothingness. 'Outer space' is the name given to the areas that aren't part of our planet Earth. It is a physical quantum of space within our four-dimensional reality within which matter exists. Where there is small proximal distance between two points of matter, a space is considered filled. Conversely, one generally considers a voidness of matter within the three spatial dimensions to be 'emptiness'. 

Most of outer space is a vacuum and unable to support our survival, so therefore one denotes 'space' to be something hazardous and toxic, unable for us to exist in. With this thought embedded deep within our consciousness, we fill our lives with matter and physical in order to attempt to escape this empty deathliness - the more matter that is ours, the further from death we can seem to be.

However, a voidness of matter is not emptiness, but can offer the illusion of being so. Our minds and instincts are innately tied to the physical, to the tangible - again, health and status is denoted by the composition of greater amounts of space; throughout history there is proof of this mentality. For example, the act of eating is not only a biological act of sustenance and livelihood but is simultaneously a symbolic act of defeating emptiness. Even our language is permeated with this, where good health and a good life can be considered 'fulfilment' of our purpose.

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## <center>Where do we fit in?</center> ##
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What we cannot easily do is disconnect ourselves from this illusory construct. We cannot reconcile the idea that emptiness within a space is not emptiness at all. A dimension can be filled with matter, just like us. It's an act of dimensional arrogance on our part that we seem to believe that if a space has no-thing in it, it's therefore empty and non-existent. This could not be further from the truth.

At the quantum level, objects that are not of our dimension - that is, things we cannot perceive, see, touch... sense in any way - are constantly existing in their own exotic and unimaginable forms. Space -itself- is made of things that we cannot understand. The very fabric of spacetime must be made of something, and within that spacetime, so too must there be 'objects' (for lack of a better term) that govern its unbreakable laws and rules. For example, the four fundamental forces of the Universe - the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and gravitational force - how is it possible they can exist in the form that they do exist had it not been for the fulfillment of a certain set of criteria at a certain point in time after the Big Bang, -by a certain series of particles or objects-, that existed in the exact ways that they existed at the moment the Universe was created, that caused those forces to be what they are and in the way we know them? The particles that bind existence itself together are all around us at every moment, allowing the matter that comprises our bodies and even our consciousnesses to exist in the first place. Even mathematics acknowledges that the quantity of matter in the Universe is not reconcilable by what we can observe. The gravitational interactions between galaxies in their current masses and sizes is not mathematically possible without the inclusion of a certain quantity of 'dark' matter and 'dark' energy - that is, matter that we cannot readily observe.