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What “substance” is measured with a ruler? What is vibrating in a cesium atom?

This is a misunderstanding of Relativity, and probably where your frustration lies. Spacetime isn't a "thing" I can loan you a bushel of, it's the geometry we can apply to determine position within the universe when we observe various phenomena. Three spatial dimensions and a temporal dimension can describe any event anywhere. Just like, on Earth's surface, I can give you longitude, latitude, altitude, and time coordinates so we can have lunch together next week on the 24th floor of the Chrysler Building. I'm not sure where all these people are who argue that time is a physical object. Can you cite some sources on this? The thing is, when we use spacetime calculations to determine when to launch a rocket and hit something millions of miles away, it's extremely accurate. Thinking of space and time as an inseparable continuum allows us to predict the movements of massive bodies to an astonishing degree. Can you use your idea to calculate the height of a geosynchronous orbit?

You will.

Earth species evolved sensors that detect various phenomena that helped them survive to reproduce, such as eyes that sense light, and ears and skin that can determine various sound vibrations or changes in temperature. All these stimuli existed first, and Earth life adapted to sense them to varying degrees. Think of it this way, there are parts of the light spectrum most humans can't see, like ultraviolet. UV light still exists even if we can't see it.

To paraphrase, if you turn on a light bulb in a room and go outside, meaning no one witnesses the light in your house, there is no light in your house?

This is still too vague be meaningful. What specific attributes are you talking about? I personally mentioned calling for the demotion/firing of prominent, privileged academics over rather innocuous social media posts. Are you suggesting something else? What exactly is toxic? This is getting close to problematic. Currently, privileged voices speak louder than others, which means they need to be quieter in order for traditionally marginalized voices to share the (figurative and literal) space. I, myself am a white, 40 year old man. When I walk into my lecture theatre, people stop talking and wait for me to speak without me doing anything. Cashiers call me "sir" and trust I didn't shoplift. Highway patrol banter with me before giving me a fix it ticket after I get caught doing 25 over the limit. I get plenty of time to speak and I'm used to being listened to and respected. It was hard for me to learn that, especially in conversations about equity, diversity and inclusion it is not my turn to speak. I can easily dominate the room and make people pay attention to me, and I can suck it away from other people in the room - easily, without trying, which is why it's a hard thing to learn. But it is time for me to shut up and listen, pass the conch to someone else and try to see the world through a different lens. If you come from a position of privilege and you think that giving up that privilege for an equal playing field is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you, my dude, are part of the reason we need wokeness.

I think that's simply how folks who identify as a flavor of Republican are being targeted. Extreme wealth has SO much data on what people like and don't like, and they use that information to achieve whatever their goals are, applying what works on various parts of the population. The white middle class is being told that minorities are jeopardizing the path to wealth, the working class hears that immigrants get better jobs, and the minorities are threatened with jail if they rock the boat. Progressives hear about what we should be doing, Liberals are usually asked to put themselves in someone else's shoes, Conservatives are usually told something dire is about to happen, and Libertarians get fed a daily diet of big-government overreach. Socialism and Communism are misrepresented then written off as historically failed economic structures, so Capitalism is the only solution most of these folks can imagine. We're all being manipulated to isolate from those who're being similarly manipulated so we don't share stories and realize the "boat" being described in all these stories is the same goddamned boat. Most of the information folks get is from entertainment sources, like FOX News and Facebook. The tone these outlets set is propaganda at its finest, and goes a LONG way to ensure that money is more important than votes or majorities or People's will. I wonder if the US has ever had a real democracy like our constitution describes, one where the idea was to raise up the People so their prosperity could gush upwards to everyone, rather than trickle down from a few?

That whole post comes across as you being rather full of yourself. But the bit that I've quoted, especially so. You might prefer wokeness. But what WE NEED is up to the individual.

That's a lie AND a strawman. I'm not speaking for others, I'm trying to show you there are some universal individual needs, and they probably start with some form of "nobody is inherently better than anybody else". When you awake to that fact, you can more easily see how the system favors some over others by design, which seems to be antithetical to what YOU claimed we need. How can an individual's needs be up to the them if the system is biased against them? As for the rest of your post, it seems you're saying that people affected by the bias in the system deserve what they get, and often crave having their individual rights taken from them. It's a strange argument in a thread about things we should try to achieve.

Imagine you're ten, you have a fever, and you have to live out in the open for a week in Arica in the hot and dry season, covered in hair and no way to cool off. How do you think you would do? We all have imaginations. Unfortunately they don't really mean anything unless we've got some evidence to back it up.