Time & Space: Is One Relative to the Other?

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Is time relative to space, or space to time?!
 
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No. To quote Einstein, "We live in a four dimensional space-time continuum"
The various dimensions do not affect one another just as the length of a piece of paper in the "x- direction" does not change its length in the "y-direction".
 
AH020387 said:
Is time relative to space, or space to time?!



There is no space, there is only spacetime and spacetime is relative to the observer's frame of reference.
 

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