You can only really use “everything” as a word to point to something less than everything.
Did you get everything out of the trunk?
Is everything ready for the report?
Let's make sure we get everything clean before we start to paint.
In all of these sentences, ‘everything’ is less than everything, is bound by space or time, or concern.
The actual everything would include every atom, every insect, every leaf, and every thought about each of those. Every building and day and minute and second and every possibility too. Every conceivable arrangement, every future decay, and every past coming into being of all of these things would need to be taken into account as well.
This leads to (or stems from) semiotic and imaginative problems.
For instance, on any true grid of everything you would have to be able to locate a grid of everything. Otherwise, your grid would be at least one grid of everything short of, you know, “having it all.”
Like,
. . . maybe if you use X, Y, Z as coordinates…
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