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- Key People:
- Rudolf Carnap
- Related Topics:
- architecture
- vacuum
- gamma space
- high vacuum
- three-dimensional space
space, a boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.
Space is treated in a number of articles. For a philosophical consideration of the subject, see metaphysics. For a discussion of the relativity of space and time, see relativity. For a description of space as the region of the universe beyond the Earth and its atmosphere, see Cosmos. For coverage of the scientific investigation of this region, see space exploration.
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Space-Time and Space-Distance
See also astronomy.