How to Use space-time in a Sentence

space-time

noun
Definition of space-timenext
  • Like this is the end of space-time or something on the other side?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Then the pandemic hit, and the team left our space-time to work in the digital ether of Zoom.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This hair has to do with the rate of change, or the gradient, of space-time’s curvature at the horizon.
    — Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
  • Physicists define all the other forces in terms of fields evolving in space-time.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • This space-time approach allows the AI to generate the entire video output at the same time.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Here’s hoping that by the fall, the TV space-time continuum will have been repaired.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail—or flagella—make striped patterns in space-time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • One night in 2018, at a bar in the East Village, Celine Song fell through a career-altering hole in the space-time continuum.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But modern mechanics – the physics of light, atoms, quantum mechanics and curved space-time – changed this concept of force.
    — Larry M. Silverberg, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The new approach measures the region of space-time that’s significantly curved by the proton.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Because of its porous, foam-like structure, the sponge has also been used to model shock absorbers and exotic forms of space-time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • China has similar plans to upgrade its space-time system by 2035.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In physics, a singularity is a point in reality where the rules break down, and rapid expansion of the fabric of space-time can occur.
    — Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But time itself is as abstract a notion as any our human brains can conceive of, and reading about space-time doesn’t help much, at least for those of us whose brains are not suited for math.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • When these pulsars ride the swell of a gravitational wave, though, the space-time ripple distorts this precision.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • And how might this change our fundamental understanding of space-time?
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
  • So the brain is given a vacation, and in that vacation or place, it might be freed up to have an alternative space-time experience.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Gravity has causal powers, warping the fabric of space-time, and thereby attracting anything with mass.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In a 2020 paper, Boyle, Flicker and the late Madeline Dickens showed that aperiodic tilings appear in the space-time geometry of those models.
    — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In a 2020 paper, Boyle, Flicker and the late Madeline Dickens showed that aperiodic tilings appear in the space-time geometry of those models.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And space-time itself may not really be a fundamental notion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Others caution that the road from negative energies to exotic shapes of space-time is winding and uncertain.
    — Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Albert Einstein proposed in 1916 that the universe was constantly being pushed and stretched by space-time waves undulating throughout the universe.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 29 June 2023
  • Discovering the motion of space-time Scientists found evidence that the fabric of space and time gets warped by gravitational waves.
    — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Discovering the motion of space-time Scientists found evidence that the fabric of space and time gets warped by gravitational waves.
    — Devika Rao, The Week Us, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
  • According to that theory, black holes spiraling into each other should cause wrinkles in the fabric of space-time, and those distortions should propagate outward at the speed of light.
    — WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • These events shake space-time far more intensely than the sun’s internal agitation does — providing a deluge of gravitons as opposed to Dyson’s trickle.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • From the higher-dimensional perspective, the toy universe is made of both particles and a space-time fabric that curves, producing gravity.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • These scientists all measured the space-time oscillations by observing gradual shifts in the steady beat of radio wave emissions from dozens of pulsars, or rapidly spinning dead stars.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 29 June 2023

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