Spacetime
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In physics, spacetime, or the space-time continuum, is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime d
Hendrik Lorentz
Henri Poincaré
Hermann Minkowski
Figure 1–4. Hand-colored transparency presented by Minkowski in his 1908 Raum und Zeit lecture
General relativity
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General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity, and as Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in May 1916 and is the acce
Spacetime
…time and the three spatial dimensions into a single four-dimensional continuum now known as Minkowski space. This interpretation proved vital to the general theory of relativity, wherein spacetime is curved by mass and energy…
Einstein cross: four images of the same astronomical object, produced by a gravitational lens
Artist's impression of the space-borne gravitational wave detector LISA
This blue horseshoe is a distant galaxy that has been magnified and warped into a nearly complete ring by the strong gravitational pull of the massive foreground luminous red galaxy.
Projection of a Calabi–Yau manifold, one of the ways of compactifying the extra dimensions posited by string theory