{"id":19183,"date":"2025-03-04T22:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=19183"},"modified":"2025-03-04T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:55:30","slug":"from-the-point-of-view-of-four-dimensional-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/from-the-point-of-view-of-four-dimensional-space-time\/","title":{"rendered":"From the point of view of four-dimensional space-time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"geometry the topography and the history of the universe fuse\" class=\"wp-image-19184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSCF2708.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">geometry the topography and the history of the universe fuse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"into one harmonious picture, and all we have to consider is a\" class=\"wp-image-19185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">into one harmonious picture, and all we have to consider is a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"tangled bunch of world-lines representing the motion of\" class=\"wp-image-19186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040368-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">tangled bunch of world-lines representing the motion of<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"individual atoms, animals, or stars. \u2014Bernadette Mayer\" class=\"wp-image-19187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040369.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">individual atoms, animals, or stars.<br\/><em>\u2014Bernadette Mayer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/P3040365-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19188,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions\/19188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}