The fraud of "space-time"

It is common knowledge now that in the modern day the majority of scientific research is fraudulent or at least conducted in such a incompetent way that it is completely useless. The more the opaque institution of Science (with a capital S) becomes detached from observable reality the more it resembles a cult.

One of the biggest sacred cows of this cult of Science is Einstein and his theory of relativity, if you ask a random peon "Who is most intelligent person who ever lived?" they will instantly say "Einstein". The degree of worship for Einstein that exists in popular culture is extreme, there is even a wikipedia page devoted to Einsteins brain as if it were a sacred object.

"Chuck." "Sneed."
"Genius." "Einstein."

The following is a transcript from a popular youtube video about space-time

"What Einstein said was this, if you don't have anything out in space, that's a flat space."
[The man gestures at a flat piece of fabric]
 "If you were to take a planet, a ball, whatever it is, a rocket ship, and roll it..."
[The man rolls a little ball across the fabric]
"It would make a straight line in that space time." 
"But, according to Einstein, if you go and have a star, that star will bend space-time in that extra dimension that you can't see"
[The man puts a heavier ball on the fabric and it makes the fabric sink]
"And that bent space-time, if you roll the ball, see, now it looks like it's going around and around that planet"
[The little ball spirals the larger ball for a few seconds until it stops]

The Earth bending space-time, here represented by blue lines of...something

The entire concept of space-time is nonsense from the very beginning , first of all we just ask ourselves, what is space? Space by definition is empty, it's nothing, the absense of something. Therefore space being empty nothingness cannot be considered "a thing" but instead just an abstraction. This is analogous to a shadow, a shadow is simply the absense of light and is not a physical object.

"Why are you casting magic missile? There's nothing to attack here."
"...I- I'm attacking the darkness!"

The same applies with time, time is also just an abstraction in the minds of men, we watch the Earth orbit the Sun and then divide that interval down until we have units as small as seconds and use those to measure how long it takes for things to happen. Time is not a physical object or entity , it would be an absurdity, this is why the concept of stopping or reversing time like a VHS player is also an impossibility.

The clever fraud of "space-time" is by arbitrarily combining these two abstract concepts and referring to it as physical object with properties to bamboozle the mind of the listener until he starts nodding his head. For good measure the phrase "btw this happens in the 4th dimension" is often thrown in casually to further confuse someone. As we know the mark of a genius is that their ideas are confusing, and the more convoluted and incomprehensible the idea the more genius it must be.