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  • n  the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located

  • On extremely fine scales, space-time, and thus reality itself, becomes grainy and discontinuous, like a badly overmagnified newspaper photograph.
  • By all standard space-time calculations, the four members of the family occupy the same three-bedroom home in Van Nuys, Calif.
  • This rip in space-time, better known as a wormhole, could in theory serve as a shortcut to a distant part of the universe (characters on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine use wormholes .
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  • Abhay Ashtekar in FOXNews
    Information only appears to be lost because we have been looking at a restricted part of the true quantum-mechanical space-time,said Penn State's Abhay Ashtekar, who has come up with the idea. "Once you consider quantum gravity, then...
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed in Science & Religion Today (blog)
    Nima Arkani-Hamed, an innovative string theorist, explains that "space-time is doomed as an elementary consequence of the existence of both quantum mechanics and gravity. If you think space-time is something real, then you should be able to...

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