Frequently I hear the two mentioned. Space-Time.
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Space time is the total of all demsions.  They as you may know are height, length, depth, and time.  Time is the fouth demsions because things take time to move.  However time an dspace are theorized to be somehow related.  In this case they would have similar measuremants becuase of that relation.  We can't truly define time, or space.  Space could be infinite and that the universe just sits in it.  Time could also be inifite and yet everything we know as time could just be an event in it.  Humans set a try finite number to infinity sometimes, hence it's given the name the name the "limit".  There's always more to find in this vast, endless world of ours, but all those things will definitely not be found in our liftime.  Maybe, if you believe in this, we'll see the human race find the answers while the rest of us are in heaven.
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It has always been my favourite subject, together with astronomy. I was over the moon when we had a double maths period at school, but the other kids thought I was weird.
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sounds really interesting.
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Okay, so you know how quantum physics shows us that all points in space, all bits of matter are at any moment both a particle and a wave.  And Einstein's special theory of relativity shows us that all light is made of waves.  And these two theories combine in interesting ways, but don't completely gel.  For decades physicists have been struggling to reconcile the two theories, but they have been unable to do so effectively.  Something was always holding them back, basically because the universe seems to be holding more energy than there is space in the points of known mass.  This made scientists wonder where all the energy was.  And then they discovered, that the space in between the atoms was itself teeming with life.  And the life that lives at the bottom of all matter, inside the shell of the tiniest waves of photons, or quanta, is a strange world of simultaneously vibrating strings.  And those strings of multi-demensional vibrating pulsating energy play in a kind of metaphysical choir, creating all the intricacies of mass and energy in the universe, as if these tiny little strings were conductors conducting a vast symphony, only they were conducting that symphony with the conductors of all the other symphonies of the atoms they were orchestrating with.  And those collections of atoms and molecules and other interesting bits were actually being played by an army of conductors conducting simultaneously with an entire legion of instruments singing and strumming away.\n\nString theory is mind-bogglingly wild, because it's so advanced.  It took PBS three hours to explain it completely, and I was still lost.  Only when I completed the book about the show's research did I have a deeper grasp of it.  Basically you just need to know that these little strings that vibrate in 6, up to 10 dimensions (depending on whose theory applies to that particular "particle" - I told you, it's mind-blowing)  and how they vibrate impacts what manifests on the level of perceptible reality.\n\nWhat's so incredible about this is that science is finally catching up to philosophy.  The Middle Way, or what Huxley called the Perennial Philosophy, has always told us that the perception of life is merely the perception of imperceptible changes on a fundamental and/or spiritual nature, and the manifestation of those changes in the world that we see around us.  In many traditional cultures, those changes are manipulated by otherworldy figures, gods, angels and the like, which is outside the scope of scientists to discern, but in today's physics, the wall between the reality we see and the reality that is real is paper-thin.  Scientists are beginning to discover that everything truly is everything, and once they can prove it, life can get a whole lot more sane, because folks will have realized that what we are today is what we were twenty thousand years ago, we are one indescribable circle trailing itslef through time, perhaps even creating subtle vibrations that resonate with other vibrating universes that themselves are creating a reality in a world far, far different than this one, beyond all perceptible consciousness.  Perhaps, there may even be a heaven, in which all this is taking place and yet life is going on and on and on, without fear or violence or pain.\n\nEnjoy your continuing discovery of the details behind string theory.  It truly is a fascinating subject.
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Opinion. Indications are that it's both. There are few truly continuous things, but there seem, emphasis on seem, to be some. Light, for example is continuous....but it's also discrete. It behaves and a wave and as a particle. But as a wave it can travel through a vaccumn, which means there are no supporting particles to transmit it, and thus it varies continuously with no discrete intervals. To explain further; sound for example, is a wave, but it must travel via a media ( gas((air)), liquid, solid) which is made up of particles, and thus sound waves are actually discrete, while light doesn't seem to be. Light is involved in some ways with time. Speed, which is travel/time, at speeds approaching light speed, will vary perceptions of time, or for practical purposes, the passage of time. Very complicated question, not to be answered by me for sure, and evading our best minds in physics and philosophy. Finally, does it mater? I mean, if there are intervals, is reality dependant on time for it's existence? And if so, would it, and we, cease to be during intervals in time...so that nothing could happen then, and we would never be ever to sense or measure these intervals, or be affected by them. So for us time is continuous, unlike river flow and the sound of music.
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My understanding of relatively would indicate that inertial time has to be different from "other time".
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time. I GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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You could be on to something on both counts.
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We can't "escape" from space-time because the two are inseperable, built-in features of our universe. To "escape" from space-time we'd have to "escape" from our universe.
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Light can be both a particle and a wave.
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Yes, I like both, esp. Twilight Zone
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outerspace\nand i guess the point still counts
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I think it is.   I mean it's because.   Hmmm???   Just give me a minute to think.    \n\nSo if space and time are    Just another second and I'll get this.\n\nOkay...so Heaven represents being with god, so then in order to find God we would not be looking for a location, but some sort of experience that is beyond space and time???\n\nI don't know...I give up.\nGood question!
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not often I get to see a fine brain at work,  thank you for that conundrum\nAfter 60 years of conundruming this question I can say positively that both of these ideas happen all the time.
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I believe there are many different planes/alternate dimensions/timelines/etc.
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affirmative. i say both.
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Did you know that according to Quantum Mechanics, sub-atomic particles are capable of being in two places at the same time? Maybe if we shrink you down to that size, you will be, too.