The problem is that you are using the physical method to study a metaphysical concept. Physics and metaphysics are two different sciences with two different methods. Since metaphysics is poorly understood, people tend to think of it as a free for all, specially because modern philosophy started to treat it like that. But it has a strict deductive and intuitive (intuition in a proper gnosiological sense) method of its own. Plato started it and Aristotle lapidated it. Throughout western history this tradition was strong until the enlightenment rejected it