The world is full of things that represent either danger or opportunity, yet at any one time you aren´t concerned with most of them. Why? Because they are far from you. The tigers in countries across the ocean would eat you in a minute if they could, but you needn´t worry, because they are nowhere near you. This is the gift of space: almost everything is far away from us and can be ignored for the time being.
Imagine a world containing an enormous variety of objects without the organization of space. Anything might impinge on anything else at any time. There would be no distance to keep things separated.
Ur Lee Smolin: Time Reborn – From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
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