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      • The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. According to the best of current physical theories, space-time explains the unusual relativistic effects that arise from traveling near the speed of light as well as the motion of massive objects in the universe.
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  2. May 20, 2021 · The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. According to the best of current physical theories, space-time...

  3. Mar 31, 2024 · Space-time, in physical science, single concept that recognizes the union of space and time, first proposed by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski in 1908 as a way to reformulate Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity (1905).

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    In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects such as how different observers perceive where and when events occur.

  5. Nov 25, 2002 · 1. Fatalism. 2. Reductionism and Platonism with Respect to Time. 3. The Topology of Time. 4. McTaggart’s Argument. 5. The A-Theory and the B-Theory. 6. Presentism, Eternalism, and the Growing Block Theory. 7. Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism. 8. The Dynamic and the Static Theory. 9. The Moving Spotlight Theory. 10. Time Travel. 11.

  6. Nov 14, 2022 · What really exists is space-time, and slicing it up into space and time is merely a useful human convention. One of the major reasons why relativity has a reputation for being difficult to understand is that our intuitions train us to think of space and time as separate things.

  7. Einstein’s spacetime. “ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ” —F. Scott Fitzgerald. Time and space together make spacetime, Figure 1.1.1 1.1. 1, the stage on which physics is played out.

  8. Space and time are relative (i.e., they depend on the motion of the observer who measures them) — and light is more fundamental than either. This is the basis of Einstein's theory of special relativity ("special" refers to the restriction to uniform motion). Back to Top. The Fourth Dimension. Minkowski. Lightcone diagram showing the worldline.

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