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
  • 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
  • Physicists define all the other forces in terms of fields evolving in space-time.
    Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2025
  • The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail—or flagella—make striped patterns in space-time.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • One night in 2018, at a bar in the East Village, Celine Song fell through a career-altering hole in the space-time continuum.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 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
  • The new approach measures the region of space-time that’s significantly curved by the proton.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The presence of mass warps the fabric of space-time, similar to how a bowling ball would make a dent when placed on a trampoline, according to NASA.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 June 2025
  • 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
  • But how will space-time warp if the object itself is in a superposition of two locations?
    Anil Ananthaswamy, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
  • In physics, a singularity is a point in reality where the rules break down, and rapid expansion of the fabric of space-time can occur.
    Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But time itself is as abstract a notion as any our human brains can conceive of, and reading about space-time doesn’t help much, at least for those of us whose brains are not suited for math.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • But there are some techniques who actually go further out, like the microlensing technique, where light gets bent because the masses in space-time bend the path of light.
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Over decades, the physicist worked hard to advance the hunt for gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The authors shed light on the ways black holes are studied today and their profound impacts on space-time, and ponder their origins, their evolution, and their roles at the beginning and the end of the universe.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
  • And how might this change our fundamental understanding of space-time?
    Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • So the brain is given a vacation, and in that vacation or place, it might be freed up to have an alternative space-time experience.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
  • As might be expected, modeling chaotic and unpredictable bounces in space-time is a challenge.
    Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Gravity has causal powers, warping the fabric of space-time, and thereby attracting anything with mass.
    Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • General relativity states that all bodies with mass curve space-time to some extent.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 June 2025

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