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What is absolute space and absolute time? We have often heard that the theory of relativity has banished them, and yet Newton’s (1946) famous characterization of these ideas leaves us in the dark as to exactly what relativity has discredited:
Absolute, true and mathematical time of itself and from its own nature flows equibly without regard to anything external. Absolute space in its own nature without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.
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Harrison, C. (1973). On the Structure of Space-Time. In: Suppes, P. (eds) Space, Time and Geometry. Synthese Library, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2650-5_9
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