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
  • So does McGilchrist, who may have used the same source to, in a sense, split space-time in two.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • So does McGilchrist, who may have used the same source to, in a sense, split space-time in two.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Physicists define all the other forces in terms of fields evolving in space-time.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Preskill, for his part, would like to simulate the quantum nature of space-time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Then the pandemic hit, and the team left our space-time to work in the digital ether of Zoom.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2025
  • Any disturbance in the fabric of space-time seems to have a direct impact on the supply chain.
    — Sadagopan S, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • The community at large has worked a lot on empty space-time, just pure gravity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail—or flagella—make striped patterns in space-time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And if the cosmological constant is zero, then space-time is flat.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Having your entire concept of the space-time continuum blown up will do that to a person.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And how might this change our fundamental understanding of space-time?
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 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 weight of the bowling ball compresses the mattress, forming a dimple — matter tells space-time how to curve.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • But how will space-time warp if the object itself is in a superposition of two locations?
    — Anil Ananthaswamy, WIRED, 29 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • And space-time itself may not really be a fundamental notion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These particles move through a continuous space-time and interact via forces.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Because of its porous, foam-like structure, the sponge has also been used to model shock absorbers and exotic forms of space-time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • China has similar plans to upgrade its space-time system by 2035.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The new approach measures the region of space-time that’s significantly curved by the proton.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
  • General relativity states that all bodies with mass curve space-time to some extent.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 June 2025
  • As might be expected, modeling chaotic and unpredictable bounces in space-time is a challenge.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The cataclysmic clash released ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves, as well as light from a gamma-ray burst.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
  • 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
  • His model does not rely on strange matter or intense space-time distortion, but uses a simple space-time shape that allows paths to loop back in time.
    — Dete Meserve, Space.com, 29 May 2025

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