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Space-Time-Matter

Claim: Space and time are supernatural, matter is natural. Natural attributes: constant change, quantafiability. Supernatural attributes: constant unchangeable, unquantifiable, infinite.

Space facilitates quantafiability and plurality. Time facilitates change. Matter can then proceed to be quantafied and changed.

Can matter truly change? The most primitive piece of matter can only move in space-time in order to "change". If the nature/essence of the matter changes, is it even matter any more? Then we are not talking about change, but transmutation or substitution. Material change (moving in space and/or time) needs a catalyst, facilitator, and that is space-time.

All (quantifiable) measurements require matter, or imaginary matter. (In maths, imaginary numbers?)

The existence of time is inferred by measuring matter. The existence of space is inferred by the existence of matter.

Claim: Dimensions (x, y, z), (width, height, depth), area, volume, length etc. are all attributes of matter, NOT space. How? Because no measurements of empty space can be made without the use of matter or imaginary matter. Thus, all measurements rely on matter, i.e. all measurements are material.

This makes sense, if space is supernatural, and thus it cannot be quantified and measured. The same applies to time. We can only infer that something like space and time probably exists, but it cannot be measured directly.

What is imaginary matter? We can visualize empty space, and when we conceptualize a length inside that space, we are relying on preconceived knowledge of something material to "measure" the length of empty space. For example, we could say that some arbitrary space has the length of three football fields.