The surface is fundamental form, and as such, it has no constituent parts, and thus cannot be assembled, fabricated or created. It is as well without essence, and thus cannot be defined in terms of substance or stuff. It is pure form, and thus cannot be defined further.
Temporally speaking, a surface is eternal. Spatially, it is as well
infinite; extending infinitely along two of its dimensions, and along the
remaining dimension, it is infinitely thin.
Its two infinite dimensions give it an infinitely great apparent area, though such an area is meaningless by virtue of inadequate definition in terms of material area.
Its volume is zero. Not having any volume, it has no structure, and thus it cannot be destroyed. Since it has no structure, it cannot be rigid, nor for that matter, plastic or elastic. Nevertheless, though not plastic or elastic, it is flexible and may undergo bending, or be found at rest, a theoretically unique condition. Since the bending of a surface gives rise to the dynamic nature of reality; its changing curvature proportional to system energy, the condition of rest is pragmatically unique as well.
It is for these reasons a surface is thought to be continually undergoing changing curvature. Since a surface is infinite along two dimensions and without any structure, it is a continuum, and as such can serve as the seat of other continuums, such as awareness.
There are no other continuums which may serve as such, inclusive of both time and space, each being subjective concoctions essential to biological reasoning, and therefor unessential; except as the principle foundations to phenomenal studies, such as elementary physics.
A surface exist because it is so simple, thus having the highest order in the chance of existence, and for this reason, as an existence as form, a surface cannot be precluded by other forms, inclusive of points, which are forms unto themselves in parity to the surface. If one surface exists, so can many, and each as existence can never not exist.
Surfaces may be defined as contiguous position along two dimensions (cusps disallowed), where at any point location on them, their curvature is flat (R = a), where R is the radius of their instantaneous curvature as determined in analytical geometry. Though this stands as the formal definition of surfaces, pragmatically there might be significant exceptions to this rule, where a huge cusp, know as The Great Wall, has been recently discovered by astronomers.*
A field consisting of these surfaces is as well infinite in all directions, since the surfaces comprising this field are each infinite. As are these surfaces, the field is eternal. It is this field then which precludes all phenomena as we know, inclusive of supernatural deities and human awareness. A surface is precluded only by Being, where without, nothing exists, not even the form of the surfaces*.
To learn more about surfaces and how they behave in Nature, giving rise to all Cosmic phenomenon, including spiritual as well as physical, even QUARKS, go here.
To learn more about the fundamental rules governing surface behavior, a study of Surface Mechanics, go here.