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What are space and motion

Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 21:40:49 2021 No.12838130 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12838198

What is space?

I can experience it in the basic way all humans do but if I imagine an object moving in the void and looking at it very closely I cant really understand what is it moving in, like what are we "inside" of, what is space, what is motion?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 2021 21:57:46 No.12838198 Report

Quoted By: >>12838242 >>12838768

>>12838130
Physicists are not interested in answering that question. They use space as a construct in physical models. Ask a philosopher.
>>>/lit/
t. theoretical physics phd student

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Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 2021 22:11:06 No.12838242 Report

Quoted By: >>12838310

>>12838198
I can understand space as a three dimensional cartesian axis.

How is that not a concern of yours, you study how the world work and are not concerned with such a concept?

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Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 2021 22:14:31 No.12838253 Report

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You cant understand that. Human brain cant understand sum things like eternity, void and creation of universe

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Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 2021 22:27:54 No.12838310 Report

Quoted By: >>12838768

>>12838242
No, I'm not a philosopher. My job is to construct mathematical models that explain experimental data. Mindjerking is not my thing.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Mar 2021 23:28:24 No.12838582 Report

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Space is the thing we exist in. It has no properties

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Mar 2021 00:13:06 No.12838768 Report

Quoted By: >>12838788

>>12838198
>>12838310
It seems like such a fundamental concept to your entire field would be studied.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Mar 2021 00:15:46 No.12838788 Report

Quoted By: >>12838866

>>12838768
As I said and you seem to have not read what I said. I repeat. NOT. MY. FIELD. It is interesting, sure. I read some of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason for instance, where he talks about the nature of space and time from an epistemological standpoint. But I repeat. Physics is not concerned with these questions, various branches of philosophy like ontology and epistemology are. Just like a physicist does not study mathematical structure, he instead goes to a mathematician and asks him.

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Anonymous Tue 16 Mar 2021 00:35:44 No.12838866 Report

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>>12838788
This is true.

I am a philosopher and time does not exist at all while space is an apriori substance of any substance.

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