What Is The Space Time Continuum
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What is the space time continuum. So physicists now routinely consider our world to be embedded in this 4 dimensional space time continuum and all events places moments in history actions and so on are described in terms of their location in space time. The space time continuum is a physics model that describes space and time as connected. Galaxies and small level e g.
Quot can you please give me a brief description of the space time continuum quot. The fact that space is 3 dimensio. Space time is a continuum because it covers the entire universe.
A few weeks ago a listener wrote in with this question. This four dimensional continuum is known as minkowski space. All things exist on the space time continuum and their locations always exist as a set of four coordinates.
Space time definition the four dimensional continuum having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate in which all physical quantities may be located. The three dimensions of space length width and height or up down left right and forward backward depending upon how you wish to think of them plus the fourth dimension of time. It is believed to be a continuum because so far as we know there are no missing points in space or instants in time and both can be subdivided without any apparent limit in size or duration.
Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize relativistic effects such as why different observers perceive where and when events occur differently. Space time is a mathematical model that joins space and time into a single idea called a continuum. In physics spacetime is any mathematical model which fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four dimensional manifold.
As you probably know we live in space which is a 3 dimensional thing. The three dimensions of space plus time.