Besides the fact that we base "time" on the movement of celestial bodies, how is time related to space?
2007-06-02 15:44:42 · 10 answers · asked by Michael n 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Einstein said the speed of light must remain constant regardless of your frame of reference. So the speed is measured in space over time, and those must always add up to the right value. if one is held constant by an experiment, the other has to fluctuate.
2007-06-02 15:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is to be consistent with the limited speed at which information can be communicated from one place to another. This limit is the light speed.
If space and time were not connected, then I could potentially be here now and then, without any lapse of time, in any other part of the universe. This means that I could go to the Sun, make it explode and then return to the Earth, knowing that in little more than 8 minutes the Sun will explode. That is, I would know the future before it happens.
2007-06-02 23:40:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a theory that might help you with this question, it's based on my own careful observations. Space is the relm in which time can operate and cause change in space. Time is a dimension that allows events to happen, whatever those events may be; without time, nothing can exist, not even black holes. Time is also where everything in space is derived from, and anyform of either matter or energy could not exist without time.
2007-06-02 16:06:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir Isaac Newton didn't think it was, and he was a genius!
Theories change, and some are proved and some remain questioned. Time indeed depends on the gravitational fields present, relativistic speeds and acceleration. There is no longer any doubt about these facts - but I'm afraid we'll have to know a heck of a lot more about exactly what time is before we can explain the reasons behind these phenomenons.
2007-06-02 15:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the big bang there was nothing but the void. The big bang created particles that had mass and moved, the intervals between movement were the first time and the electromagnetic fields that were created by the particles made space as opposed to the void.
2007-06-06 12:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can be interchangable, depending on one's reference frame. You ask what the heck does that mean? Well different events that occur at the same time in different places to one observer can occur in the same place, but at different times to a different observer. That is, one man's space interval is another man's time interval. In general if you plot a set of events that occur along a line in the, say, y directions on x-y axes, were x is actual ict (i is square root of negative 1), to calculate what the (x,y) coordinates in another reference frame moving in the y direction, you just rotate your axes. That's pretty connected. However, that ic you must multiply t by makes it unique among the 4 space-time dimensions.
2007-06-02 16:05:27 · answer #6 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time & space is a God's way of making sure that things are not occuring at the same moment
2007-06-02 19:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
look at it this way --- places 'A' and 'B' are separated with the help of *area*. It takes *time* for something to go from 'A' to 'B'. Scientists like to dream up esoteric words and words for even the simplest issues, yet "spacetime continuum" is somewhat as elementary because of the fact the occasion of 'A' and 'B.'
2016-12-30 15:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Time = Absolute Zero = Nothing
2007-06-02 18:38:46 · answer #9 · answered by 5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this isnt what u are looking for. but what was there in space before time?
2007-06-03 10:14:28 · answer #10 · answered by imputh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋