Is the Material World a Place of Potential?

We have a tendency to think of the world purely as a material structure, but it isn't really obvious that the world is exactly a material structure. It seems to me to be something more like constrained potential, you know, because everything could be a multitude of other ways. And maybe there's an inexhaustible amount of potential everywhere, and we just don't know how to get access to it. So i think the this story is trying to hammer that idea home too, which is, don't be so sure that it's impossible. Or maybe don't let the assumption that it's Impossible stop you from going forth into the world that would be. That's like an inoculation against