Vessal

I have noticed a few things that don't seem to be... well... things. They are real, yet they aren't tangible. They seem to both exist, in one sense; yet not exist, in another sense. I have come to call what sort of substance they lack, "vessal".

This word is a take-off on vessel, as you have probably guessed. A vessel is a container, and what these things lack is sort of like a container. They lack space to occupy. You can't be in them, not like you can't be in matter, but in the space the matter is.

My first example is a surface. Take the surface of you wall, it is where the paint (or whatever is on your wall) touches the air. It is neither the wall, nor is it the air. It is between the wall and the air. Yet the wall and the air touch one another. The surface is in fact, two dimensional. It has no vessal, it really isn't anything. Not like a vacuum is nothing, for a vacuum takes up space, so a vacuum has vessal. That is the difference between vessal and matter.

My second example is the sky. The sky is what we see when we look up. It is not the atmosphere, it is not outer space. It is "up". The clouds are in the sky, the sun is in the sky, and the stars are in the sky. The stars are not in the day sky. Even though they are still there, you cannot see them. Thus they are not in the sky.

You cannot be in the sky. If you go up in a plane, you are up in the atmosphere, but you can look up at the sky, it is still above you. If you are standing on the ground, looking at me in a balloon, I would be in the sky. Right? The sky is simply "up". It isn't really anything. It has no vessal. Nothing to occupy.

In a way, things without vessal aren't things at all, they are more of concepts. However, concepts carries the connotation of something more abstract than the sky, or a surface. The sky and a surface are there, in reality. you can see them, but they really aren't there. They are both there, and not.


Okay. If you understood all that all-right, I'm going to introduce something a little different. A new substance that has no vessal. This is not something that lacks matter, but something that lacks energy. It is potential energy.

Potential Energy isn't really energy at all. It has the potential to be energy, but it is not Kinetic Energy. However, we talk about Potential Energy, why? Because it matters. It is something that really isn't real, but it sort of is. In almost the same way that the sky isn't really real, but sort of is. Potential Energy has no vessal

So, now I would really like it if y'all could give me more examples of objects that aren't. Things that have no vessal. If you actually know of a "real" word for vessal, that would be cool to. Then I can talk to people, and we could communicate.

If you have any questions or clarifications needed, you can ask away. (don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you)