particles and dimensions reduce to distances

[MonDie]

It's just a thought I had. Both space's dimensions and its contents are implied once you describe the world as distances (between objects) adjusting collaboratively. To give the position of particle A is merely to describe distances AB, AC, AD, etc., nothing more. The way distances adjust gives the appearance of a space with dimensions.

Edited July 9, 2014 by MonDie

[Ophiolite]

That appears to be, in the scientific sense, a trivial statement. What am I missing?

[MonDie]

Forgive my lack of physics.

Some philosophers wonder how the space-occupying-stuff (particles, waves) appeared, as if there must be a separate explanation for (a) how space came to be and (b) how it became occupied. What seems to be two problems might just be one, © why are distances so orderly?

 

I have to be gone now. I only came back to edit a post. Teehee