And I join you in appreciating betty boop's illuminating insights! Truly, I cannot thank her well enough for all of them for she seems to ever have the forest in view while I am engrossed with a single leaf.
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness sheds light on many of my leaves.
Indeed it brings to mind Max Tegmark's Level IV Parallel Universe model which posits that everything we observe "in" space/time is actually a manifestation of mathematical structures which really do exist outside of space and time. Or to put it another way, what an observer "in" space/time perceives as real is actually a manifestation of reality which is not subject to space, time, energy-momentum, etc.
Of course the Physicist must not under the principle of methodological naturalism allow God the Creator to be mentioned in his theory. But to a Christian it is obvious:
Sounds like Plato's The Cave or Hebrews 8:5...
Cheers!