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Space and time are interchangeable (except for our inability, so far, to double back chronologically as we can spatially). So Einstein told us. An interval that one observer sees as a gap in space between two places can be seen just as validly as a gap in time between two moments. It is a truly shocking discovery.
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Broderick, D. (2019). The Scientific Basis for Time Machines. In: The Time Machine Hypothesis. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16178-1_2
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