Space Time

[druiaghtagh]

I have always been c..p at science and physics, i recently read a very simplified explanation of Space Time that goes thus.. you can commit an act in one second and exactly the same thing later but they would never be the same nor could they ever be because the first second has gone forever, anyone care to comment on this please, remember, i am no scientist so no Stephen Hawking type answers please, thanoyu.

[fo3nix]

What you're saying is that two things can be separately defined by also taking into account their time coordinate. This is true: don't think of time as some separate thing to distance, think of it as a *kind of distance*. So you can hop on the spot in London, and hop on the spot in New York, but you can differentiate the two acts (even if you were doing the exact same thing), by looking at their spatial coordinates (i.e. where on the planet/in the universe you were). The same is true for time... Time is just another coordinate.

Einstein/Lorentz also showed that if you see someone do two things at the exact same time (simultaneously), to another passer-by the two things may be seen to occur at different times (i.e. not simultaneously).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Simultan eity_and_causality

[einsteinsdog]

Time is a dimension. To locate a historical event you need its geographical location and its date. That is how to find it. For instance to locate the magna carta in history you need to go back to the year 1215 and the geographical location would be Runnymede

[davver]

When you consider the two acts imagine them as plotted onto a timeline.

[druiaghtagh]

Thankyou all for such interesting answers