When we think of time and space, we think of them intuitively as two relatively independent phenomena. Not necessarily independent -- as we know that we could not know of or measure space if it weren't for time (time in which to traverse distance, or to mentally juxtapose locations), and we could not know of or measure time if it weren't for space (time is a measure of motion or change. A change in what? Spatial configuration.) -- but rather separate and discrete.

Special Relativity tells us that time and space are not so distinct as we think they are. That one can be mathematically rotated into the other. That the passage of time and the distance of space are relative to speed. That the speed of light is the constant of conversion between the two units. So we know, intellectually, that time and space are fundamentally meshed. Yet this fact is only made apparent as such at extraordinary speeds that are remote from our everyday experience. So we continue to cognize, in our deepest levels -- even the level of genetic predisposition, I surmise --, time and space as being essentially separate elements, and then add, almost as an exeption, the intellectual belief that they are indeed two angles from the same vertex.

The point is that the fact that time and space 'behave' as 'they' do, in such an extremely counterintuitive manner, at such terrific speeds means that time and space are -fundamentally- JUST as counterintuitively intertwined on ALL scales; it is the principle. The logical implication of this fact is that space and time on any level, at any speed, don't -actually- exist in a way that's even -close- to how we think they do. *Reality itself*, as we perceive it, is most fundamentally based on the modalities of space and time. Therefore, if the actual nature of space and time is utterly different from how we naturally think of it, then so is reality itself.

So we simply have no clue..

-inhahe

Also see space.html. I seem to have appended this same idea there both more concisely and more comprehensively.