id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7035 Space - Wikipedia .html text/html 5472 607 63 Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.[1] Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. In Isaac Newton's view, space was absolute—in the sense that it existed permanently and independently of whether there was any matter in the space.[3] Other natural philosophers, notably Gottfried Leibniz, thought instead that space was in fact a collection of relations between objects, given by their distance and direction from one another. In 1905, Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity, which led to the concept that space and time can be viewed as a single construct known as spacetime. Before Albert Einstein's work on relativistic physics, time and space were viewed as independent dimensions. The History of Theories of Space in Physics. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7035.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7035.txt