Tag: space-time
Special relativity and the birth of space-time
When it first appeared, general relativity was a new theory of gravitation: the first to be coherent and in agreement with observations, since that of Newton. Before it, there was…
The Riddles of Time | Case
Everyone understands what we are talking about when we talk about time. Who doesn’t even think they know this one intimately? You don’t have to be Kant, Einstein or Heidegger…
Gravitational waves would have made the Big Bang space-time turbulent
Space-time is not a material medium, yet its dynamics resemble that of fluids. Like them, it could have become turbulent, especially at the time of the Big Bang, when it…