John Smith wrote:
And, obviously, IMHO, he is referring to a space truly "composed of
nothing" and absent of anything even resembling an ether. And, I did
accept that as the crux of his ponder-ings/point(s.)

Maybe "absence of anything even resembling a structure"
would be a better way to put it. It's pretty clear that
if there is no structure for space, then space cannot
exist. Absolute nothing would necessarily be the absence
of any and every *thing* including space.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com