Transcript: Events take place in both space and time. This is fairly obvious if we consider some every day examples. To make an appointment you have to be at the right place and the right time. The two ways you might miss an appointment are by going to the right place but on the wrong day or by going on the right day but going to the wrong place. You might for instance be in a baseball game trying to catch a fly ball. To be in the position and the time to catch the fly ball is a decision in both time and space. If you miss the fly ball it could be because you got to the right place but too late, or perhaps you got there on time but were slightly to the wrong side of where the ball landed. These trivial examples illustrate that time and space are connected. In physics and astronomy it’s routine to talk about space-time as connected entities whether we’re discussing the behavior of microscopic particles in the physics lab or objects in the universe. In the theory of relativity, time and space are formally coupled and linked mathematically. The distortions of relativity caused by motions close to the speed of light apply equally to space and time.