All the articles are speaking of the same concept: time and space. I quote this from “Space Time and Architecture” which I think it’s the most persuasive description about time and space: “Space alone or time alone is doomed to fade into a mere shadow; only a kind of union of both will preserve their existence.” From decades, people try to figure out the relationships between time and space, not only by philosophical debates or theory development, people also try to represent the mystery of time and space by many ways such as drawing, literature and photography.

Photography is a relatively newer technology to record the status of an object in a space. What I am really fascinated is the photo-gun which reminds me a photographer Eadweard Muybridge. While Marey was inventing his photo-gun, at the almost same time Muybridge using another apparatus which is numbers of cameras from varies of perspective to shoot a moving object (usually the object is animal.) For me, chronophotography is interesting when speaking of time and space because it provides a chance for people to look deep inside of an ephemeral action which happens every moments in our daily life, also it proves time and space are rely on each other; we see “time” from changing status of an object, and the motion of this object define the “space.”

From the article “What is the Theory of Relativity”, through the concept of box suggests the space is a constantly existence. It reminds me an old philosophy debate: if a tree falls down in a forest but no one see or hear it, is the tree’s falling down real? I would say what in an enclosed box is not a “space” if the premise is “there’s nothing at all but space” because space is always existing and changing along with time even we can’t tell the changing status in a micro-scale. However, if it can be proven that there is air in the enclosed box and the ingredients inside is changing (the proportion of oxygen, helium, etc.), I’d admit it’s “space” inside of the box.