Please explain the contiguity of spacetime?

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That's part of the problem -- fabric is two-dimensional in space terms. The analogue of spacetime being a fabric is NOT the same as spacetime beng a fabric.

The other part is that the "strings" are not two dimensional, but multi-dimensional (at least four dimensions -- mass, time, length/displacement and direction -- and perhaps as many as 12 dimensions, the other dimensions are ones for which we do not yet have a metric). The thing abut dimensions is that we can't really separate them from each other, except in analogue formats, so the best we can do in reality is try to maintain other dimensions as constants in our experimentation and thinking, so that their effects are minimized or even cancelled out.

Note: it MAY be that "warping" our normal dimensions through the others is possible. But we don't know this until we can properly measure those other dimensions.

But keep thinking -- even though Interstellar is pure fiction, with only a small touch of reality.

genius_generous answered 1 year ago

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Please explain the contiguity of spacetime?

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