How to Use space-time in a Sentence

space-time

noun
  • Like this is the end of space-time or something on the other side?
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    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 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
  • For four years, its array of three satellites will tumble through space in an equilateral triangle some million miles across, bouncing lasers off the golden cubes kept in perfect free fall within each craft to feel for ripples in space-time.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Those behind the thought experiment suggested, desperately, that black hole interiors might simply not exist — that space-time ended at the edge of the black hole in a literal wall of fire.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • These musicians represent a moment in time for music that will never come around again — a singular ripple in the space-time continuum of history.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • But the gravitational-wave background could also be coming from something else, like hypothetical cracks in space-time known as cosmic strings.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • The swirling dance disturbs the fabric of space-time sufficiently to generate very low-frequency gravitational waves that travel across the universe at the speed of light, scientists believe.
    Joel Achenbach and Victoria Jaggard, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
  • With Einstein and relativity, a big insight is that space and time don’t really exist as separate entities so much as there’s this one thing called the space-time continuum.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Massive objects bend the fabric of space-time, changing the direction of passing light and making the source of the light appear distorted — a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
    Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • He probably is best known for creating a type of space-time block code commonly used in wireless cellular communications.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2022

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