ABSTRACT
Should the average person be asked: What, precisely, do you mean by the word ‘space’?, the answer might be: Space is, for example, the inside of an empty drawer-a region that is there to be filled with socks and shirts. Generally, then, space is seen as an entity to be occupied by matter; i.e. space and matter are quite independent of each other. The continuum of points of space are like a continuous sequence of rungs of a ladder. Any one of them might be occupied by a person’s foot, but it need not be so. The ladder is still there, with or without a person to climb on it.
