Thus, just as it is necessary to surrender the notion of absolute space because there is no fixed point in space, so we must now surrender the notion of absolute time. (religion-online.org)
Traditionally, material particles have absolute position in Newtonian absolute space and time, but Whitehead relocated them in the relativistic space / time of modem astrophysics. (religion-online.org)
While Newtonian mechanics admitted at each instant a single instantaneous space which was a substrate for all objectivity of simultaneous events, the theory of special relativity denies it: in the four - dimensional «world» (I would prefer to call it the «world - history») of Minkowski, there is no privileged instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, and therefore no privileged frame of reference which Newton identified with absolute space. (religion-online.org)