On the next rung up the ladder of difficult mathematics comes doing the same thing in four-dimensional space.

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Einstein's theory of relativity unified these and created a four-dimensional space that is an analogue to our three-dimensional space, except that the "distance" between two points need not be positive.

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Now imagine this happening in the four-dimensional fabric of space and time.

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Space-time, according to Einstein's theories of relativity, is a four-dimensional fabric woven together by space and time.

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