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nyc111 ◴[] No.41870842[source]
I would really appreciate if people writing these types of articles first give rigorous and unique definitions of space and time.
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blackbear_ ◴[] No.41871770[source]
Something like (from Wikipedia):

> In the presence of gravity spacetime is described by a curved 4-dimensional manifold for which the tangent space to any point is a 4-dimensional Minkowski space.

Perhaps? A good way to lose 99% of the readers before the end of the first sentence.

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1. slashdave ◴[] No.41892961[source]
That's in the article on Minkowski space. It's actually a good summary, with a hyperlink to manifold.

Here's the introduction to the "spacetime" page:

> In physics, spacetime, also called the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects, such as how different observers perceive where and when events occur.