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What Is Space Time ?

What Is Space Time ?

By Thomos JamesPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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What Is Space Time ?
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A remarkable fact of Einstein's relativity is that all movements in space are relative and have the same rules that govern every movement through space-time. Space and time cannot be treated as inextricably linked, for movement from one to the other influences movement, just like any other quality inherent in space-time. Changes in your movement in space lead to predictable effects and consequences, just like your movement through time when you encounter another observer in the same space-time coordinates that you agree are simultaneously with you at the exact moment.

This was confirmed today by the researchers at a press conference at NASA headquarters in which they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B). Space-time vortices on Earth and their shape agree with the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Experts in Einstein's theory chaired an independent panel of the National Research Council established in 1998 by NASA to monitor and examine GP-B. The mass of the earth is like a dimple in the fabric, much heavier than a person sitting in the middle of a trampoline.

Penn State scientists studying crystal structures have developed a new mathematical formula that solves a decades-old problem in understanding space-time, the universe - structure of Einstein's theory of relativity. For calculations to function in relativity, scientists must insert a negative sign after the time value, because they cannot set a spatial value before or after it. Physicists have learned to work with the negative sign because it means that space time cannot be treated with traditional Euclidean geometry but must be considered as complex hyperbolic geometry.

In my book Our Mathematical Universe, I argue that spacetime is not only our entire outer physical reality, but that mathematical structures are by definition abstract and immutable entities that exist outside spacetime. Space time is a mathematical structure in the sense that it has properties that are mathematical properties : the number four in space time is the number of dimensions. The most interesting property of your space-time tube is not its mass shape, but its inner structure, which is much more complex.

The structure of space and time is a conceptual model that connects the three dimensions of space to the fourth dimension of time. According to the best current physical theories it explains the unusual relativistic effects that occur when you travel faster than the speed of light through the movement of huge objects in the universe. All mass, including your body, is bent into a four-dimensional cosmic lattice.

The famous physicist Albert Einstein developed the idea of space-time as part of his relativity theory. In the course of the development of his particular and general theories of relativity, Einstein studied the laws of physics and their relation to the speed of light. He came to the conclusion that space and time are separate and independent phenomena interwoven into a single continuum of space / time that encompasses several dimensions.

Space and time are a continuum, and although Einstein's theory of relativity is an advanced scientific idea, scientists still struggle to grasp its meaning and significance. Space and time exist in physics as a single concept, but the acknowledged union of space and time was first proposed in 1908 by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski to reformulate Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (1905). This theory spurred other scientists to investigate the relationship between space and time.

If physical space is considered a flat three-dimensional continuum - i.e. An arrangement of all possible points and places - then Euclidean postulates apply. Time can be regarded as an independent space, separated by a one-dimensional continuum that is homogeneous in its infinite extent. The spatial diversity of the Cartesian coordinates seems to adapt to any straight line that can be recorded.

Newton founded classical mechanics on the view of space as an autonomous body in which time passes, regardless of what happens in the world. For this reason Newton spoke of absolute space and absolute time and differentiated them by the different ways we can measure them, which he called relative space and relative time. The philosophical controversy about whether space and time exist as matter became tendentious, according to which gravity, fields and materials are counted and which are not.

The theory of space-time-without-mathematics (STM) is consistent with classical tests of general relativity, the solar system and cosmological and other experimental data. It has important similarities with other highly motivated unifying field theories including those based on strings, branes and other large additional dimensions. According to astrophysicist and science author Ethan Siegel, quantum field theory describes the dynamics of subatomic particles as a field.

The spectral structure of a V-wave is the result of the group velocity dispersion (GVD) and the simultaneous diffraction of the open space. The length scales associated with the diffraction and scattering of V-waves are guaranteed to match. We propose to demonstrate an optical field configuration that allows observation of spacetime by the St. Talbot self-imaging effect and unfolding of space-time on the axial longitude scale that underlies diffraction scattering.

In 2011, a NASA mission called the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) measured the shape of space-time swirls around Earth and found that they matched Einstein's predictions perfectly. Gravity, Einstein says, is the movement of objects that follow curved lines or dimples. Distortion in space-time causes it to bend, which in turn narrows the way the universe moves, so that objects follow trajectories of distorted curvature.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicts that space-time on Earth will not be distorted by the rotation of the planet. In 1905, Einstein stated that physics laws are the same for non-accelerated observers at the speed of light in a vacuum and independent of the observer's movement in the vacuum. His General Theory of Relativity (1916) made use of four-dimensional space and time and integrated gravitational effects.

Newton's view of the space-time movement was frequently criticized, starting with contemporaries such as Leibniz and Berkeley until the end of the 19th century with Ernst Mach's writings, which were strongly influenced by Einstein. It seems that Einstein's most famous essay on general relativity is a grand presentation of the theory rather than a timid generalization. Gravity is no longer considered the force in the Newtonian system that causes the distortion of space and time, but the effect is described by a series of equations formulated by Einstein himself.

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