{"id":2496,"date":"2025-12-23T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/?page_id=2496"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:20:36","slug":"space","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/space\/","title":{"rendered":"Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Space Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below I present the research I&#8217;ve done on the theme of Space. I chose it for research because I find this topic interesting, and because of its close relation to the theme of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Scientific Perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Space is the vast, mostly empty part of the universe that lies beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. It\u2019s an almost perfect vacuum with extremely low pressure and very little matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound cannot travel there because there aren\u2019t enough particles to carry pressure waves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From Earth, space is often said to begin at the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line (around 100 km above sea level) &#8211; a conventional boundary where the atmosphere becomes very thin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The observable universe extends almost 13.8 billion light-years, limited by how far light has traveled since the Big Bang.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Space contains celestial bodies that include stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, and others, but most of it is empty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even empty areas contain solar wind (charged particles), cosmic rays, and the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is leftover radiation from the early universe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dark matter makes up much of the universe\u2019s mass but isn&#8217;t visible and is detected only by gravitational effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Philosophical Perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relationism<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Space is not an independent \u201cthing\u201d &#8211; it\u2019s just the network of spatial relations between objects. For example, if everything in the universe shifted one meter to the left, nothing would observationally change &#8211; this implies that space might just describe how objects relate to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Substantivalism<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Space is a real entity or \u201ccontainer\u201d that exists independently of objects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Material bodies exist in space and move from one point to another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howell, E. (2017). <em>What is Space?<\/em> Space.com. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/24870-what-is-space.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/24870-what-is-space.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthology, 1000-Word P.A.I. (2022). <em>Philosophy of Space and Time: What is Space?<\/em> 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/1000wordphilosophy.com\/2022\/08\/03\/what-is-space\/\">https:\/\/1000wordphilosophy.com\/2022\/08\/03\/what-is-space\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-1024x712.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-1536x1067.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Mind-Map-2048x1423.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mind Map I made on the theme of Space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-1024x712.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-1536x1067.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/12\/Space-Prompts-2048x1423.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prompts I came up with to help me broaden my research (the last one referred to the theme of money)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to the 4 Themes Research Presentation I gave in class: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/week-3-3\/\">https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/week-3-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-89b4c9e9 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/money\/\">Money \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Research Below I present the research I&#8217;ve done on the theme of Space. I chose it for research because I find this topic interesting, and because of its close relation to the theme of time. Scientific Perspective Philosophical Perspective Relationism Space is not an independent \u201cthing\u201d &#8211; it\u2019s just the network of spatial relations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ms22g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}