What is another word for space-time continuum?

Pronunciation: [spˈe͡ɪstˈa͡ɪm kəntˈɪnjuːəm] (IPA)

The term "space-time continuum" is a fundamental concept in physics that refers to the mathematical model that combines space and time into a single, four-dimensional entity. While there are no exact synonyms for this term, there are several related concepts that are often used interchangeably. For example, "spacetime" and "space-time fabric" are commonly used to describe the same concept. Additionally, terms like "spatiotemporal", "four-dimensional", and "space-time manifold" all refer to the same idea of combining space and time into a single framework. While there is no single term that perfectly captures the nuances of the space-time continuum, these related concepts provide useful alternatives for describing this complex idea.

Synonyms for Space-time continuum:

What are the hypernyms for Space-time continuum?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    spacetime, minkowski space, worldline, world sheet, four-dimensional continuum.

Famous quotes with Space-time continuum

  • I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
    Patrick Stewart
  • According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but "organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum." I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces.
    Edward Abbey
  • This conscious self is only one aspect of our greater reality, however; the part that springs into earthknowing. It can be called the "focus personality," because through it we perceive our three-dimensional life. It contains within it, however, traces of the unknown or "source self" out of which it constantly emerges. The source self is the fountainhead of our present physical being, but it exists outside of that frame of reference. We are earth versions of ourselves, beautifully turned into corporal experience. Our known consciousness is filtered through perceptive mechanisms that are a part of what they perceive. We are the instruments through which we know the earth. In other terms, we are particles of energy, flowing from the source self into physical materialization. Each source self forms many such particles or "Aspect selves" that impinge upon three-dimensional reality, striking our space-time continuum. Others are not physical at all, but have their existence in completely different systems of reality. Each Aspect self is connected to the other, however, through the common experience of the source self, and can come to some degree to draw on the knowledge, abilities, and perceptions of the other Aspects. Psychologically, these other Aspects appear within the known self as personality traits, characteristics, and talents that are uniquely ours. The individual is the particle or focus personality, formed by the intersection of the unknown self with space and time. We can follow any of our traits or emotions back to this source self, or at least to a recognition of its existence.
    Jane Roberts
  • If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?
    Connie Willis

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