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Space-time

The unified whole of three spatial dimensions and time in which, according to relativity, all events occur.

The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Explained in

• The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking

  Four dimensions in a single fabric: three of space and one of time. We are used to keeping them apart, but physics finds it easier to treat them as one whole.

• A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen Hawking

  The three dimensions of space and the one of time, joined into a single whole. According to Einstein's theory, mass curves it.

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