anyone ,make me undertand what's spacetime -_-
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The intuitive and traditional idea of space and time is that objects live in an infinite three-dimensional box, space, and that their motion in space happen in time in such a way that at each definite moment in time all objects have a position, and we can compare those positions because time flows the same for all objects.
Physicists discovered that there is no such box, and there is no such flow of time. This traditional space/time framework somewhat holds but only relatively to an object; it is not the same for all objects.
So there is no universal spatial background, and no universal time flow.
Spacetime is then the notion we use to still have a background after all. By forming a space (in the mathematical sense) combining traditional space and traditional time in an intricate way allowing space to rotate into time and the other way round, we can still get by with the idea that there is some smooth universal scene where everything happens.
The price to pay to see spacetime as a background is that this scene is completely static, sometimes called the block universe. But since all space and all time are intrinsically part of it, it actually cannot be conceived from an external point of view, and indeed Einstein's equations are strictly local and relational: they describe how the distribution of energy defines its own playground and how time and space can be seen in the way we are used to only instant by instant for specific observers, whose mutual perspectives are always shifting and transforming. In that view spacetime is far from static, it is more like a sort of fluid.
Physicists discovered that there is no such box, and there is no such flow of time. This traditional space/time framework somewhat holds but only relatively to an object; it is not the same for all objects.
So there is no universal spatial background, and no universal time flow.
Spacetime is then the notion we use to still have a background after all. By forming a space (in the mathematical sense) combining traditional space and traditional time in an intricate way allowing space to rotate into time and the other way round, we can still get by with the idea that there is some smooth universal scene where everything happens.
The price to pay to see spacetime as a background is that this scene is completely static, sometimes called the block universe. But since all space and all time are intrinsically part of it, it actually cannot be conceived from an external point of view, and indeed Einstein's equations are strictly local and relational: they describe how the distribution of energy defines its own playground and how time and space can be seen in the way we are used to only instant by instant for specific observers, whose mutual perspectives are always shifting and transforming. In that view spacetime is far from static, it is more like a sort of fluid.
Rajputana007:
Beacause Einstein wrote a whole book on it
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einstein gives the concept of space and time in his research paper (not in his book) called general theory of relativity in which he prove that the you can consider our solar sytem as a plane sheet of space and time where in x direction you can take time and in y you can take space the more the mass of an object the themore space and time curvature bends
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