• Question: why was space called space?

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 19 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Greig Cowan

      Greig Cowan answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Since there is a lot of it! 🙂

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      Dave Jones answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      And because it’s pretty damn empty!

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      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      if there is a place where there is a LOT of space, it’s definitely space!! So it makes a lot of sense!
      The word space itself comes form latin spatium, which itself apparently comes from proto-indo-european ‘spÄ“’, which meant ‘to pull’ or ‘to stretch’. This makes a LOT of sense given that space is expanding (although I don’t think they knew at the time 😉 )!!

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      Aimee Hopper answered on 21 Jun 2014:

      it is simply a definition of what we see, much in the same way the grass is defined as the green blades that stick out of the ground.

      As Laurance said, it’s from the Latin “spatium”, and has a lot of different definitions
      http://www.thefreedictionary.com/space

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