eli5 : can somebody explain the idea of “spacetime” for me?

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Hi
I’ve been studying pharmacy/medical sciences for all my adult life when i stumbled upon “a brief history of time” by stephen hawking
Anyway,for a person who hasn’t studied physics much..how does “spacetime” exist? I mean einstein abandoned the idea of absolute time
But what is spacetime? And how does time exist as a physical dimension? I mean it’s just something we measure as it passes
How does all this exist?

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You can locate an object by giving a location where it can be found, and a time when it can be found there. Both position and time are required because that object is located in space-time, not just in space.

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