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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If they were really the same thing, traveling into the past would be trivial. Greg Egan's Orthogonal series explores the consequences of space and time actually being the same thing. You can also the the difference in formulas related to proper time, where terms for space and time have opposite signs. Space and time have the same relationship to each other as real and imaginary numbers, in a fairly literal sense.

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