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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Have you heard before that, the faster something moves through space, the less time passes for it? Because of this, Einstein figured into special relativity that space and time are joined together in what is called a continuum. Without time, nothing in space would be able to move, as something other than the three spatial dimensions needs to progress for that to be possible. A position in three dimensional space is referred to as a position. When time is added, it is referred to as an event. Moving something is a series of events.

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