What is space?
Published on March 1, 2021
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As we were taught is school, Space is a three-dimensional extent where objects and events have a relative position and direction.
Do you know that although space is a three dimension, modern physics consider it to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime?
Space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical Universe, or is it?
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However, Philosophers continue to disagree over whether it is an Entity, a relationship between Entities or part of a conceptual framework.
What is really thought about Space?
Debates about the nature and the mode of experience of Space dates back to the the times of Timaeus, of Plato and Socrates.In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute in the sense that it existed permanent and independently of whether or not there was/is any mater in space.
Other natural philosophers also thought that Space is in fact a collection of relations between objects, given, by their distance and direction from one another.
Later, the metaphysician (Immanuel Kant) said that the concepts of space and time are not empirical ones derived from experiences of the outside world.
What are your opinions?
I find this subject fascinating, and I wish I knew all there is to know about it.In the 19th and 20th centuries mathematicians examined geometries in which space is conceived as curved, rather than flat.
There's not much information out there about this subject and I wonder if it is because, no one knows for sure, what space really is!
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