Thank you Gary for so elegantly making my point. Don't worry you are no the only one in this situation. The reason why the theory of everything has not been found is because no one can get through "The Ruby Slipper Conundrum". Even though I addressed in my essay what you are questioning in my last post - it is difficult to register. The problem may stem from the question of what is a true void universe, no parameters (time, distance, direction, etc...) no energy, -- I will just post here the paragraphs from my essay that addresses your issue... Anything I add will be in () and then I'll better explain the Ruby Slipper Conundrum.
A universe that has no spinning points is a universe of only points with no way to distinguish one point from another. In this new mathematics, points that cannot be distinguished from each other are considered to be the same point (therefore no distance exists). A spinning point added into a universe of indistinguishable points creates a relative motion of all other points in the universe. Since there is no parameter of distance established yet, the new math uses a new parameter called "length". It is important to keep in mind that the new parameter being called length only depicts whether a point is "relatively closer" or "relatively farther" from the spinning point and is never to be confused with what we know as distance. (it is difficult not to equate this new parameter I am calling length to distance - length is NOT distance)
Distance cannot be defined by points because points do not have the property of distance ( you made this point before and I agree) and between any two different points there are an infinite number of points. Depending on your perspective the surrounding points can be considered moving circumferentially or not moving at all. (If you are on the spinning point, the surround points are moving, if not, the points are not moving at all) Since the circumferential points cannot be differentiated from the perspective of the spinning point they need to be considered the same point with the same value for their circumferential motion. It is not necessary for us to know a specific quantitative value for this circumferential motion; it just has to be the "same value".
We can express the "relative" circumferential movement of the surrounding points mathematically using the relative length (l) and the "relative" angular velocity . The angular velocity is given in terms of another new parameter associated with "time"; but this parameter we are calling "time" is not what we currently conceive as our known parameter of time. (Similar to the relationship of length compared to distance) This new parameter of "Time" is "relative" and is considered to pass "relatively quicker" or "relatively slower" with no quantitative value. The angular velocity is in terms of 1/"time". ( I should have wrote this as 1/"relative time" realizing that the relative time is not the same parameter as we know as time.
The Ruby Slipper Conundrum is explained this way... I coined the phrase "The Ruby Slipper Conundrum" and to understand why - you need to know the story of the "Wizard of Oz". It has to do with the main lesson of the tale.
I love to explain it so here it is... The Ruby Slipper Conundrum basically is this...
Everything we "know", all our theories dealing with all the particles, all the laws of physics, all the parameters we use... are known by the way particles and energy exist "in" spacetime... But we have no idea what spacetime is made of to give it its properties. Let's suppose that spacetime is composed of a single type of structural unit. We shouldn't call this structural unit a particle because all particles we know exist "in" spacetime. We will have to call this building block structural unit an "entity" and say that the entity exists "as" spacetime.
Now comes the hard part... We would need to describe the entity's properties in mathematical terms. To do so you would have to pull an entity out from its structural position "as" spacetime and put it where there is no spacetime and THEN express its properties in mathematical terms. Now I ask you - How do you do that?
There is no distance,
no time,
no dimensions,
and no directions!
Is anyone capable of understanding the mathematics associated with this entity? I assure you that answer is NO! And I also assure you that if you were given its correct math without going through the learning process called the Ruby Slipper Conundrum, you would not believe it and close the book before you got to start learning the correct theory of everything.
In my book, The GOD Entity: Gordon's Theory of Everything, I start with this entity as the building block entity of spacetime and I have to give its mathematics... but to give its real math would not be accepted. So I must use the Ruby Slipper Conundrum learning process. This process starts by artificially putting the entity "in" spacetime like the way we acknowledge all other particles. Doing so gives the reader a chance to wrap their head around some math that they will accept. I do this fully knowing that there are errors introduced at this time (which would not be noticed by the reader). These errors will have to be corrected later.
The math given for the entity can still get the reader through the internal structure of spacetime and the internal energy structure of light. But it will have to be corrected when I get to the internal energy structure of particles containing mass (Chapter 7). When I give the true math of the entity at this time, the reader will have an easier time accepting it because you have already learned enough of the Gordon Model to see why it is correct.
The reason why I call this learning process the Ruby Slipper Conundrum is because at the end of the Wizard of Oz, the wizard takes off in his balloon without Dorothy. She starts to cry that she will never get home and the good witch comes. The good witch tells Dorothy not to cry, that she ALWAYS had the power to go home because she has the Ruby Slippers. Dorothy says But I had the ruby slippers ever since I arrived at Munchkinland, why didn't you tell me this before... And the good witch says -- "Because you wouldn't have believed me!"
This is why every physicists needs to go through the Ruby Slipper Conundrum as it remains the biggest stumbling block to finding the theory of everything.
I can only lead people to this theory -
All the best Gary