A fluid word..a fluid universe?

This may just be a simple muse that is not new, but it occurred to me today that "air" is not empty, it has waves, ebbs and flows and you can see it under the right conditions moving as a fluid.

So far as I know "space" isn't space and empty...according to the space/time theory, space is warped by the gravity of large objects and who knows what else...so it has mass...like air and is fluid and apparently flows in response to objects in it...like water, like air.

They talk about waves and winds from the sun that affects our weather. Everything seems to express itself by tidal forces in one way or the other regardless of it's density that we perceive...but it all seems to be of the same nature...

It's just a thought and maybe something to think about as we think about the totality of our universe/world.

reply to post by wiseone11

Mechanical waves, the waves that move through air, water, and solid matter transfer energy from one molecule to the next.

Space (between the planets and stars) is not quite empty but pretty close to it. True "space" does not have mass and it is not warped by gravity. Space does not flow. Mass bends space. That bending results in the force we call gravity. Gravity is not propagated in waves. Einstein predicts that waves of gravity can exist but they are not an intrinsic property and as yet they have not been detected.

The solar wind flows from the sun. In some ways it is similar to air but in other ways it it quite different. It is so thin that compared to air it hardly exists. It is also possesses magnetic fields which cause it to behave in a manner very unlike air.

Electromagnetic energy does travel in waves but these waves are very unlike mechanical waves. These waves do not require a medium to travel through. They a self propagating, propelling themselves. These are radio waves. These are light waves.

They are all part of the universe but they are all of very different natures.

[edit on 1/29/2010 by Phage]