The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities... space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
Time plays an important role. My physical body is taking shape in space, and I see that my ideas about how we influence space with our movement is really 'matter of fact.'
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.