Not only the general public, but even students of physics appear to believe that the physics concept of spacetime was introduced by Einstein. This is both unfortunate and unfair. It was Hermann Minkowski Einstein's mathematics professor who announced the new four-dimensional spacetime view of the world in 1908, which he deduced from experimental physics by decoding the profound message hidden in the failed experiments designed to discover absolute motion. Minkowski realized that the images coming from our senses, which seem to represent an evolving three-dimensional world, are only glimpses of a higher four-dimensional reality that is not divided into past, present, and future since space and all moments of time form an inseparable entity spacetime. Einstein's initial reaction to Minkowski's view of spacetime and the associated with it four-dimensional physics also introduced by Minkowski was not quite favorable Since the mathematicians have invaded the relativity theory, I do not unde