![]() When someones location in time is sought, as far as we know (and relativity and microseconds difference aside), the answer for all humans on Earth has always been "now", or "the same as for you", so in practice, the question which is common for space, never usually arises about time, nor was there a need for a word like this to emerge. ![]() Speculatively, the reason we have one word but not the other, is because we don't tend to get lost in time, or have to report our current chronolocation, whereas we frequently have to report our spatial location. What you might ask is, "When is it, where you are" or similar. Space is a term that can refer to various phenomena in science, mathematics and computing and generally encompasses the concept of an area or region. ![]() This can be seen by imagining asking an aircraft, lifeboat, or someone who is lost in fog on a mountain, but has GPS, or even someone in an imaginary landscape such as VR or a hallucination, "what is your position?" This would be completely common understood English.īut you would not ask someone confused about when it is, or somehow "lost in time", or in a VR or hallucination, whose personal impression was sought, "What is your moment?" in ordinary English, and there is no phrase that does ask this in one word, that I know of. Even physicists aren't sure what actually. While the concept of time is self-evident and intuitive the steady passing of events before our eyes the orbit of the Moon around our planet describing its fundamental nature is much harder. In particular, proposed answers "moment" and "instant" do not answer the question. Time is a measure of non-stop, consistent change in our surroundings, usually from a specific viewpoint. Correct understanding of the essence of space and time is closely connected with the scientific picture of the world. It is inevitable, unrepeatable and irreversible. (Fiction writers may have invented words not in wide use). Space has three dimensions: length, breadth and height, but time has only onefrom the past through the present to the future. There is no specific word in common English.
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