" a substance without limit or boundary... surrounds everything boundlessly... and from which heaven and earth are somehow generated" anaximander* 610-545 b.c as for the universe apeiron is assigned with an emissive - absorptive mechanism its arithmetic - mathematical characteristics being that of an infinitely fast to an infinitely slow rate of emissions and absorptions planck's constant being the demarcation point between infinitely fast and infinitely slow emissions and absorptions there are at least four possible ways of looking at this 1 it is the consequence of eternity that it gives rise to substance/space in a geometric way not because it's pleasing to look at but because that is the only way which can contain... 2 all of substance is tightly curled into a ball and space could never take on an unending linear form 3 both of the above concepts can be incorporated into one another 4 something else completely science is 99% sure that we live in a flat space universe the question is whether flat space is the only configuration of space that reality can furnish *one of the giants of original thought among other things he was the first to recognise that evolution is occurring seeing that babies were helpless at birth he realized that it couldn't always have been that way darwin, through his elitist education, came across his insight and began to develop it