Spacetime is frequently imagined as a four-dimensional container in which events are placed. This metaphor subtly imposes a Newtonian frame on relativistic phenomena. In relational terms, spacetime is not a container but a network of relations among events. Points in spacetime do not exist independently; distances, intervals, and curvature are measures of relational actualisation, not coordinates in a pre-existing stage. Thinking of spacetime as a container encourages reification of abstract structures, hiding the dynamic, relational nature of the universe itself.
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