Transcendence is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, part of his Heritage Universe series. This book is the sequel to Summertide and Divergence.
First US edition (publ. Del Rey Books) Cover art by Bruce Jensen
In physics, spacetime, also called 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. Sp
Hendrik Lorentz
Henri Poincaré
Hermann Minkowski
Figure 1–4. Hand-colored transparency presented by Minkowski in his 1908 Raum und Zeit lecture