In the physical universe the effect that one event has on another tends to decrease with the distance in time or in space between them.

在物质世界中，一件事对另一件事的影响随两者之间的时间或空间距离的增大而衰减。

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The constancy of the speed of light essentially underpins our understanding of space and time and causality, which is the fact that cause comes before effect.

光速常数实质上支撑着我们对于空间、时间和因果关系的理解。我们都相信因在果之前的事实。

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There are many examples of profound ideas, having a considerable effect and change on society, being "discovered" at approximately the same time, by people widely separated in space.

有很多这样的例子，对社会产生不可忽视的效果和改变的意义深远的想法，被分隔在“形状”中的不同地方的人们差不多同时“发现”。

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They asked participants to report on their own psychological health during that time to estimate the "green space effect".

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Jack Ng and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have written a paper arguing that Dr Lieu overestimated by a factor of several million the effect that fluctuations in space and time would have on light.

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And we have pursued a policy that we believe there is time and space at this point to allow -- to have an effect, to have the result that we desire.

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