Keep in mind the absolute is a totally pure state, homogenous. The only true homogenous state is zero, nothing, equilibrium. Absolute zero.

The polar opposite of which is infinity. Everything, no bounds.

Like the number line, where one end is zero and the other goes toward infinity.

Equilibrium is implicit in Special Relativity, as the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock is closest to the equilbrium of the vacuum. The unmoving void of absolute zero.

Then consider what fills space; Energy and the forms it manifests. Energy is dynamic and expanding, so it's what we would consider "physical."

While form emerges as the limits and interaction of the energy, so it might almost seem an abstraction, or at least physically neutral. Especially since eliminating/losing the energy and the form settles back to equilibrium/nothing. The flatline in the middle.

Which sort of makes it the negative, relative to the positive of the energy. Though without the energy manifesting it, it would just be nothing in the first place.

But the existance of the energy not only implies form, but necessites it, as infinite energy would be an oxymoron. Something simply expanding and increasing forever and everywhere not only requires ever more energy to come into existance, but it would still overlap and interact, creating distinctions and form, thus limits.

So forms are real, in that they are definition and limitations of what is manifesting them.

Consider, for example, the concept of the aether; It is assumed to be some physical medium, like a fluctuating vacuum, but that implies energy. If we assume it is simply the void, as a state of equilibrium/absolute zero, then the problems of explaining away the lack of physical characteristics is unnecessary.

Not that there isn't positive and negative charge, as well. Like a wave, the crests and troughs balance out. +1,0, -1.

I could try going around in this circle a few more times, but no one has ever questioned me up to this point, so this is about where I've thought it through.

As it is, I see myself as just tossing a ball out there and hoping others will run with it. I know I have my limits.