Sentence examples for relative spaces from inspiring English sources

However, Charleton does not introduce the terminology of "relative" time, "relative" spaces, or "relative" places, and nowhere raises concerns regarding true (absolute) motion versus merely relative motion.

For this reason he spoke of absolute space and absolute time, so as to distinguish these entities from the various ways by which we measure them (which he called relative spaces and relative times).

He had identified a distinguished class of dynamically equivalent "relative spaces," in any of which true forces and masses, accelerations and rotations, would have the same objectively measured values.

It turns out, however, that Kant's own view, in sharp contrast to Newton's, is that "absolute space is in itself nothing and no object at all," but signifies only an indefinite process of considering ever more extended relative spaces (4, 481 482; 16–17).

(Ad 1) Although arguing that absolute space and absolute time are distinct from any relative spaces and relative times involves, in each case, arguing for the existence of an additional entity, it does not follow that, in arguing that absolute motion is distinct from relative motion, Newton is obliged to argue yet another existence claim.

TiVo's DVR shows only the relative space available with a bar, with no percentage.

As a consequence, they slip the anchor of reality and drift into a relative space defined by the picture alone.

Will Gregory, who as half of the duo Goldfrapp released a song called "Rocket", of which the last line is "We have lift off", has launched into relative space for his first opera, premiered at the QEH, commissioned by the BBC Concert Orchestra and directed by Jude Kelly.

That space which is itself movable is called material, or also relative space.

Relative space is any movable measure or dimension of this absolute space".

The relative spacing of the lines lets them estimate the fine-structure constant at that time.