Concept

Absolute space and time

Overview

Absolute space and time is a concept in physics and philosophy about the properties of the universe. In physics, absolute space and time may be a preferred frame.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Absolute space and time

• George Berkeley
• Henry More

Related ideas

• Simon & Schuster
• Aristotelian physics
• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• George Berkeley
• General relativity
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Princeton University Press
• Philosophy
• Isaac Newton
• Johannes Kepler
• London
• Function (mathematics)
• Mass
• Stephen Hawking
• Physics
• Set (mathematics)
• Special relativity
• Space
• Galilean invariance
• Speed
• Spacetime
• Galileo Galilei
• Time
• Nicolaus Copernicus

Place in the tradition

Part of Confirmation holism.

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