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Single Idea 14735

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time]

Full Idea

Unlike time, space has three dimensions and lacks a distinguishing direction; unlike space, time seems to be specially connected with causation.

Gist of Idea

Space is 3D and lacks a direction; time seems connected to causation

Source

Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 4.5)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.87


A Reaction

These strike me as nice reasons to doubt (what I already prima facie doubt) that there is a single manifold that is 'space-time', for all that twentieth century physics tells us it is so. A century is a mere click of a clock where truth is concerned.