时空观是物理理论的基石,也是自然科学的基石,因为存在的一切都发生在一定的时间和空间之中.从亚里士多德、伽利略、牛顿到爱因斯坦,每一个伟大的物理学家都对时间和空间是什么做过回答,但这些答案还不是最终答案.本文分析了历史上存在的各种时空观,从笛卡尔的"物质空间"思想出发重新审视了时间和空间的关系,通过分析说明:不同的"物质空间"中时间是不同的,从而获得了对牛顿绝对时空观和爱因斯坦相对时空观的统一认识.
Space-time viewpoint is the cornerstone of physics theory as well as the cornerstone of natural science,because everything exists in certain part of time and space.Each of the great physicists from Aristotle,Galileo,Newton to Einstein attempted to define time and space,but none of those definitions was final.This paper analyzed various existing viewpoints about time and space,reviewed the relationship between time and space based on the Matter Space of Descartes,and proved by analysis that time differs in different Matter Spaces,therefore come to the integrated understanding of Newton′s absolute space-time viewpoint and Einstein′s relative space-time viewpoint.