Why Does Space Exist?

Space isn't really empty. It holds a lot of matter and dust creating stuff like rocks which earth is made out of. So I guess we need space to hold everything and create new things.
 
Space isn't really empty. It holds a lot of matter and dust creating stuff like rocks which earth is made out of. So I guess we need space to hold everything and create new things.
The average density of the universe is about 10^⁻³⁰ g/cm³ (depending who's estimate you go by, but it's all in that ballpark)
The mass of a single hydrogen atom is 1.66Ɨ10⁻²⁓ g.

If my nigger brain did the math right, that's about 1 hydrogen atom worth of mass for every ~1.66 million cubic centimeters. Sounds pretty damn empty to me.
 
Thats why they call it Space
It is kinda baffling though.
You take the sun and all other stars as well as the earth and all other planets and every asteroid and dust particle and even black hole, then add dark matter and the mass from dark energy, and then distribute all of that across the observable universe, you get about the mass of 1 and two thirds hydrogen atoms for every cubic meter of space.
I dunno. It's just kinda cool.
 
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God made space so he'd have something to chuck all of his creations into.
 
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