Physicists' Ideas Of Space And Time Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 958):

Yet, some physicists would strongly argue that a far more radical overhaul of the ideas of space and time is needed, if the appropriately deeper insights are to be gained as to the nature of a ‘quantum spacetime’.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, in the General Theory of Relativity, the three dimensions of space measure the relative location and extent of phenomena, and the dimension of time measures the relative unfolding of processes.

As this blog demonstrates, in physics, phenomena in space, such as geodesic trajectories, are mistaken for space, the dimensions in which they are located and extend, and processes, such as the ticking of a clock, are mistaken for time, the dimension in which the unfolding of processes is located and extends.