Thread: What is space?
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Old 09-22-2004, 06:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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OK I am not a physics major but I did recently read some really good articles about Einstein. So as a layman I understand it as this (and please feel free to correct me if there are any physics majors out there):

Matter and engery are not equivelent, that's the whole point of e=mc^2. IE: a small amount of matter is equal to a massive amount of energy.

Perceptions of space and time have been debated for quite some time and again as I understand it, they are essentially different versions of the same thing. That is to say: both space and time are simply ways to describe the location of a 'thing.'

For example: I exist at X,Y,Z coordinates (space) at this point in time.
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