Questions tagged [spacetime]
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What is the "fabric" of spacetime if it is not a relational entity?
This is an interdisciplinary (philosophical physics) question.
In Newton's absolute spacetime model, spacetime is described as a physical entity. However, in the relational spacetime model (supported by many including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,…
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Is special relativity immune to the paradox of Achilles?
According to the entry "Proper Time" in Wikipedia, for an object in a SR spacetime traveling with velocity v for a time interval Δ T
c2Δ T 2 = c2 Δτ2 + v 2 Δ T2,
where Δ T is the coordinate time interval and Δ τ proper time interval experienced for…
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Does the Universe have a boundary?
We see that the Universe is also called (sky) when Aristotle talks about it.
But I thought about it and I came to the conclusion when someone asked the question about my belief in what Aristotle said that I understood what they were saying and it…
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