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A grid representing spacetime is distorted by three spheres of different sizes, illustrating how massive objects curve spacetime according to general relativity.
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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.
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Deleted Web site: Physics LibreTexts - The Lorentz Transformations. Aug 21, 2026
Add new Web site: U.S Department of Energy - Spacetime. Aug 18, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Biological Production of Spacetime: A Sketch of the E-series Universe. Jun 02, 2026
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - The Lorentz Transformations. Apr 06, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Biological Production of Spacetime: A Sketch of the E-series Universe. Mar 13, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Biological Production of Spacetime: A Sketch of the E-series Universe. Mar 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - The Lorentz Transformations. Sep 26, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Spacetime. Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Astronomy 2e - Spacetime and Gravity. Jun 28, 2025
Add new Web site: IOPscience - Space-time as a deformable continuum (PDF). Mar 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - The Lorentz Transformations. Jan 29, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The dynamical approach to spacetime theories (PDF). Jan 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Space and Time: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. Aug 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Cognitive structures of Space-Time. Aug 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Energy Wave Theory - Spacetime. May 11, 2023
Add new Web site: The Nature - What is Spacetime? Mar 17, 2023
Link added. Jan 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - What is space-time? Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Geometry of Space-time. Aug 31, 2022
Corrected display issue. Oct 05, 2018
Add new Web site: Penn State - Institute of Gravitation and the Cosmos - Space and Time: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond. Feb 20, 2018
Add new Web site: Gravity Probe B - What is a space time continuum? Feb 14, 2018
Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Space and Time: Inertial Frames. Aug 18, 2017
Article revised. Jan 11, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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