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When you drive down the highway, you are moving through space. What else are you moving through?
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In physics, space and time are intertwined into a four-dimensional manifold called spacetime. The concept of spacetime combines space and time within a single coordinate system, typically with three spatial dimensions: length, width, height, and one temporal Show more…
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