It breaks it into a graph object that can be easily scaled.

它为一个图形对象，可以很容易地扩展。

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Even though the graph is going up and down, the object is moving from left to right.

虽然图上曲线是上下波动,但是物体是由左向右移动的

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So what we would like to do is to describe what the object does by drawing a graph of time versus space and the graph would be something like this.

然后我们要做的就是描述这个物体的运动,通过画一个"x-t"图,画出来的图就像这样

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With enough time, I would expect an object map would look similar to the Facebook graph in terms of how connections completely transcend geography.

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