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• space-time — /spays tuym /, n. 1. Also called space time continuum. the four dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located. 2. the physical reality that exists within this… …   Universalium

• space-time curvature — erdvės ir laiko kontinuumo kreivumas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. space time curvature vok. Raum Zeit Krümmung, f rus. кривизна пространства событий, f; кривизна пространства времени, f pranc. courbure de l’espace temps, f;… …   Fizikos terminų žodynas

• Curvature — In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which a geometric object deviates from being flat, or straight in the case of a line, but this …   Wikipedia

• Time travel — This article details time travel itself. For other uses, see Time Traveler. Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in… …   Wikipedia

• Space weathering — is a blanket term used for a number of processes that act on any body exposed to the harsh space environment. Airless bodies (including the Moon, Mercury, the asteroids, comets, and some of the moons of other planets) incur many weathering… …   Wikipedia

• Time Warner Center — The Time Warner Center is a mixed use skyscraper developed by The Related Companies in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi story …   Wikipedia

• Metric expansion of space — Physical cosmology Universe · Big Bang …   Wikipedia

• de Sitter space — In mathematics and physics, a de Sitter space is the analog in Minkowski space, or spacetime, of a sphere in ordinary, Euclidean space. The n dimensional de Sitter space , denoted dSn, is the Lorentzian manifold analog of an n sphere (with its… …   Wikipedia

• Anti de Sitter space — In mathematics and physics, n dimensional anti de Sitter space, sometimes written AdS n, is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature. It is the Lorentzian analog of n dimensional hyperbolic space, just as… …   Wikipedia

• Philosophy of space and time — is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time. While such ideas have been central to philosophy from its inception, the philosophy of space and time was both an… …   Wikipedia

• Vector space — This article is about linear (vector) spaces. For the structure in incidence geometry, see Linear space (geometry). Vector addition and scalar multiplication: a vector v (blue) is added to another vector w (red, upper illustration). Below, w is… …   Wikipedia