flyingcloud wrote:so the way I see it the apm doesn't say space is empty either, connection or not there is something there and everything touches everything else.
tjhe differnece I perceive is that a rope is linear whereas apm is 3 dimensional in the same context, the ropes can be bent, contorted to acheive three dimensional attributes but the connectivity between two adjacent points on that rope a restricted to two dimensional linear continuity
as opposed to apm which should connect to the next adjacent unit in all directions simultaneously
Space is not an entity which can be empty or full!
Every "thing" cannot touch every other "thing" in thread theory because every single atom is not simultaneously touching every other atom. Only so many atoms can fit around one atom

. Touch is "0 distance" between two objects or entities.
In chain theory it is even more explicit. Each link of chain is connected to two others, but only touches other links occasionally through normal motion.
Each atom connects to each other atom in every direction, what is this talk of 2D? Curvilinear motion, i.e. motion with nonuniform acceleration in a direction, is not an issue at all. Also, the rope is *always* 3D, it never "achieves 3D attributes". It is always 3 dimensional.
kevin wrote:Instead of nothing, think no-thing.
Nothing is how they have described space, and they further describe it as a vacuum, stating that such a thing is roughly nothing, instead think no-thing.
Can you provide an actual picture and/or definition of no-thing, to illustrate
explicitly how it is different from nothing? You seem to think it can "flow" and perform other actions. Objects and entities can perform actions, concepts cannot. Is no-thing an object/entity then? If so, what does it look like? If not, how is it different from an object/entity such that it remains physical (shape, finite) and can perform actions (but still not be something)?
I think I know what you're thinking now Kevin. By "no-thing" you're referring to what I refer to simply by saying "nothing". On the other hand most mainstream physicists say nothing/vacuum incongruously to refer to a "sea of virtual particles blinking in and out of existence". It is their blithe disregard for even the most basic rudiments of logic and language that leads to so much confusion.
So when I say "nothing" I am NOT referring to the web of chain-rope interconnecting atoms (which is something, although you cannot reach out and grab it in the usual sense of the phrase). An atom propagates along this web by collecting chain in its direction of travel and releasing chain in the opposite direction. This web makes its presence known to us by the alternating expansion/contraction of the electron shells of atoms, which torques each rope-chain in the web, and is known as light. Another atom's shell is expanded/contracted by the local torsion-state of the rope-chain.
So, although the interconnected "highway" on which the signal known as light propagates is something, it does not prohibit the motion of entities like atoms because these entities are also constituted of pieces of the highway. I think you, Kevin, are referring to this "highway" as nothing because the mainstream mathematical physicists erroneously and incongruously do so (albeit in the context of their own irrational and supernatural theories).