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The line war has begun (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Space-time itself is curved, therefore there is no such thing as a straight line.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have geodesics for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If anyone wants to grasp the basics: here is some fun reading (leading on to some beautiful math). Changing the idea of parallelity leads to hyperbolic geometry and other fun stuff. :)

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