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Single Idea 20640
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
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Full Idea
At very short distances, space-time itself becomes some indeterminate foam.
Gist of Idea
Space-time is indeterminate foam over short distances
Source
Frank Close (Theories of Everything [2017], 6 'Intro')
Book Ref
Close,Frank: 'Theories of Everything' [Profile Books 2017], p.109
A Reaction
[see Close for a bit more detail of this weird idea]
Related Idea
Idea 20639
Quantum fields contain continual rapid creation and disappearance [Close]
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[relative space and time, treated as one system]:
14014
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Space alone, and time alone, will fade away, and only their union has an independent reality
[Minkowski]
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21232
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Space-time arises from the connection between measurements of space and of time
[Einstein, by Farmelo]
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15482
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We can't think of space-time as empty and propertyless, and it seems to be a substratum
[Martin,CB]
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20640
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Space-time is indeterminate foam over short distances
[Close]
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22931
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We distinguish time from space, because it passes, and it has a unique present moment
[Le Poidevin]
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15194
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Time, as it appears in standard modern science, is bad verificationist metaphysics
[Smith,Q, by Le Poidevin]
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14735
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Space is 3D and lacks a direction; time seems connected to causation
[Sider]
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15021
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The central question in the philosophy of time is: How alike are time and space?
[Sider]
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14588
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Modern metaphysicians tend to think space-time points are more fundamental than space-time regions
[Hawthorne]
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14901
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Spacetime may well be emergent, rather than basic
[Ladyman/Ross]
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14924
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If spacetime is substantial, what is the substance?
[Ladyman/Ross]
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22913
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The universe expands, so space-time is enlarging
[Bardon]
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19475
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Relativity makes time and space jointly basic; quantum theory splits them, and prioritises time
[New Sci.]
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19955
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Space-time may be a geometrical manifestation of quantum entanglement
[New Sci.]
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19948
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Einstein's merging of time with space has left us confused about the nature of time
[New Sci.]
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23002
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In relativity space and time depend on one's motion, but spacetime gives an invariant metric
[Baron/Miller]
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