Relationships of time and space

[Alan]

I thought of an interesting thing related to space and time earlier today and I have been thinking and branching off the idea since:

"Traveling through space takes time"

this is an obvious statement, even traveling very small distances takes time... The interesting part came here. My mildly dyslexic mind swapped space and time:

"Traveling through time takes space"

I don't know what this implies or if it is a logical fallacy... But it was interesting to think about. I then pictured a graph with the x-axis "time" and the y-axis "distance". Imagine swapping those two columns.. WTF!?!

[helios]

I think it's a redundancy.
Let's change "traveling" to "moving": "moving through time takes space". This sentence implies that something is moving, since you can't move nothing. "Moving [something] through time takes space." It's not moving it through time what takes space, it's the existence itself of the something, whatever it is, that takes space. The fact that it's moving through time is irrelevant.

Imagine swapping those two columns.

It's meaningless. Location is, indirectly, a function of time. A particle's position in time is independent of its location.

[m4ster r0shi]

Maybe taking a look at how space and time were created will clear things up a bit...

http://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/24744/page3.html#msg143262