You need objects to measure space, to serve as reference points for measuring distance. Therefore there is no space outside the event horizon of the entire universe, since nothing can escape, and there are no reference points. I had previously stopped here, but I'd like to continue wrt your thread.

I propose that even within an event horizon, in the presence of objects, there is no space. That space is imaginary, perceived to be there because different parts of the same object are only tenuously connected, causing a communication bottleneck. Would you not agree that you and I are composed of a subset of the cloud of particles (protons, neutrons, electrons) existing within the Earth-Moon sphere? We are using another subset of that quantum totality to communicate (electrons, photons). I am not saying that subatomic particles are alive, and that we are one and the same person. Not at all. I'm saying that we belong to the same quantum field, and that our connection is tenuous. We perceive the world with only a subset of the quantum reality, and therefore perceive a gap, or emptiness as a result.

Could distant stars be closer, if we were more evolved, and perceived the world with a larger subset of the quantum reality? Perhaps via the development of personal sensors for x-rays, or gamma rays, or even entanglement? We might leap across space, where our primitive ancestors would believe that the world was flat, and came to an end a short distance out to sea.