space-time
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Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
However, neither grapples with what kind of existence that implies, or how space-time differs from a map of events.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Or is space-time — the manifold of all the events that happen throughout eternity — merely something that occurs?
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
To recover the illusion that time passes within this framework, four-dimensional space-time must exist in a manner more like the three-dimensional existing elephant — whose existence is described by four-dimensional space-time.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
In that case, the beginning of time would be a regular, smooth point of space-time and the universe would have begun its expansion in a very smooth and ordered state.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing space-time
Space Science (Astronomy) - Middle School
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Space Science (Astronomy) - High School
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The Universe and Its Stars (Cosmology) - Middle School
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