Now stick with me on this next paragraph.
Everything is natural, even though at a human level we may create artificial things. These artificial things have a purpose, and are a means by which we can understand and evolve into our greater nature. Many of the artificial things we create are essentially models for learning our greater nature.
Our economic systems are a case in point. We created them as an artificial version of a natural ecosystem, both involving energy exchanges which are constantly in flux.
At the core of economics is the principle of scarcity or finite supply. At the core of ecosystems is the principle of abundance or infinite supply, which to help join some dots here we can call infinity.
A parallel progression is the discovery of nuclear fission as a precursor to humankind finding a way to enable nuclear fusion.
In Economics, the “scarcity” problem is resolved by allocating a price or value at the point where the supply and demand for goods or services intersect. It is literally a case of “X” marking the spot, even though this “X” is constantly in flux as supply and demand changes over time.
In terms of ecosystems then, including the ecosystem of space-time, we can think of this “being in the right place at the right time” intersection point as a particular space-time coordinate where our experience is optimised. Again, this coordinate or value is constantly in flux as its operator seeks to maintain its optimum outcome at any given moment.
As we go from moment to moment, we can map out a trail of “past” coordinates, with all “future” coordinates being subject to varying degrees of probability falling within a certain range or scope of possibility.
For our purposes here, we can call this trail or map of coordinates a space-time continuum.
To then better understand the nature of space-time continuums, we simply need to refer back to our model of economic markets, and the nature of their price movements, for more hints and clues.