Time, Space, Fields, Spacetime & General Relativity

[Immortal68]

TL;DR

Can time and space be thought of fields?

Can time and space be thought of fields? And if so, how can this affect spacetime? And then what would this mean for affect general relativity?

 

[PeterDonis]

Can time and space be thought of fields?

I have no idea what that would even mean, so I think the answer is no.

 

[Dale]

Summary:: Can time and space be thought of fields?

Can time and space be thought of fields?

A field is something that has a value at each point in spacetime. So it would be quite circular to define spacetime as a field.

 

[haushofer]

What we call spacetime actually is a manifold equiped with a metric, which is a tensor field.

In John Stachels words: "no metric, no nothing."