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Time is defined operationally to be that which is measured by clocks. The SI unit of time is the second, which is defined to be "the duration of $9, 192, 631, 770$ periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium $133$ atom."

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Lack of independence between the spatial dimensions and time within space-time

I am having a conceptual difficulty understanding the following issue regarding space-time: it is clear to me why a full description of coordinates requires three spatial dimensions plus time. … This does not seem to hold in space-time, given the effects of time dilation and space contraction, which is essentially a rescaling transformation of one dimension based on the object's velocity along …
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