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Interesting thought, Alexander. Hmm, I'm probably going to be shot down in spectacular fashion here, but the Greeks proposed that all matter was composed of, or a result of, the interplay of four basic elements ie. fire, water, air and earth. Taken literaly, that would suggest that most things were composed of warm, bubbly mud. The ancient Greeks were of course not that stupid and intended that such elements were of a philosophical as opposed to physical nature. Ok, the science is a "little fuzzy" but given the meagre state of their measuring instruments (often consisting of little more than a pair of eyes and a blunt knife) some of their attempts to explain the world around them were actually fairly concise. Their concept that aether was what made up anything not composed of the 4 basic elements is, as you suggest, not a bad description of the nature of space itself and as such is probably worthy of more respect than is usually given it. I suspect however, that we're sailing a two man boat here. Incoming!!
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