Isn't this just what Leibniz said?
Leibniz had the objection, and OPH supplies the arithmetic he lacked. Writing to Samuel Clarke until his death in 1716, he argued that space is only the order of things that coexist. Shift the universe three feet to the left and nothing measurable changes, so absolute position is a fact about a picture. Berkeley restated it in 1721 and Mach in 1883. Leibniz was right, and absolute space stayed in the textbooks for two centuries, because an objection that forbids a quantity without predicting a measurement changes nothing. Here the objection arrives with a wiring diagram, twelve ports and thirty seams per piece of the world, one averaging rule forced by three demands, and forces split as one plus three plus eight. Leibniz had no wiring diagram, which is why Clarke could answer him through five letters and concede nothing.
Also in Chapter 1: Why Is the Universe So Hard to Reverse Engineer?.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
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