15 Facts About Space

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

Space backed the Copernican theory that the universe was heliocentric, with a stationary sun at the center and the planets—including the Earth—revolving around the sun.

Space is famously known for his "cogito ergo sum", or the idea that we can only be certain of the fact that we can doubt, and therefore think and therefore exist.

Space's theories belong to the rationalist tradition, which attributes knowledge about the world to our ability to think rather than to our experiences, as the empiricists believe.

Space posited a clear distinction between the body and mind, which is referred to as the Cartesian dualism.

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Space could be thought of in a similar way to the relations between family members.

Space used the example of water in a spinning bucket to demonstrate his argument.

Space thought of making a test of the sum of the angles of an enormous stellar triangle, and there are reports that he actually carried out a test, on a small scale, by triangulating mountain tops in Germany.

Space considered the predicament that would face scientists if they were confined to the surface of an imaginary large sphere with particular properties, known as a sphere-world.

Space is one of the few fundamental quantities in physics, meaning that it cannot be defined via other quantities because nothing more fundamental is known at the present.

Space has been studied in the social sciences from the perspectives of Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, urban theory and critical geography.

Space's focus is on the multiple and overlapping social processes that produce space.

Space argues that critical theories in the Humanities and Social Sciences study the historical and social dimensions of our lived experience, neglecting the spatial dimension.

Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha's concept of Third Space is different from Soja's Thirdspace, even though both terms offer a way to think outside the terms of a binary logic.

Bhabha's Third Space is the space in which hybrid cultural forms and identities exist.