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"Michael Hell" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> To summarize all that: in the eyes of both Newton and Einstein, while
> absolute space and time are "somewhere out there"; it is relative
> space and time that we measure..
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> Emphasis: RELATIVE SPACE AND TIME ARE MEASURED.
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> Now.
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> String theory.
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> There are visible dimensions of space and time, and there are hidden
> dimensions.
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> These hidden dimensions, I take it, cannot be measured.
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> Are they still relative?

Nobody can measure future time. The same is true for negative spatial
distance. If we did consider the future merely hidden then we would take
an obviously wrong fatalistic point of view. Future can be influenced.
Therefore I prefer to distinguish not between an apriori existing, so
called absolute, eternal time scale on one hand and a measurable, .
relative map of it on the other hand. I consider it the other way round
and distinguish between the presumably basic measurable and relative
elapsed time on the level of putative reality on one hand and the usual
notion of time, which can be considered as an ideal being abstacted and
extrapolated from all possible measurement. Newton as well as Einstein
were believers in god and a god-given temporal order from eternity to
eternity.