Straight lines are a human abstraction, there aren't any straight lines in the universe. True or false?

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Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:02:49 2019 No.10554616 [Reply] [Original]

Straight lines are a human abstraction, there aren't any straight lines in the universe.

True or false?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:08:11 2019 No.10554631 True, next question

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:08:21 2019 No.10554632 false

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:12:57 2019 No.10554644 >pick literally any two points in the universe >actually draw a straight line between them >straight lines now exist in the universe

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:13:25 2019 No.10554649 false, Light goes in straight line and light is everywhere.

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:14:02 2019 No.10554651

>>10554644
>do something with human abstraction
>it's totally not human abstraction, guys

>>10554646
Not straight on a molecular level, not straight on an atomic level, not even remotely straight on a relativistic level, not even remotely straight on a quantum level. Next

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:14:37 2019 No.10554653 >>10554649 >Light goes in straight line except it does not

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:15:04 2019 No.10554655 >>10554649 Light follows a curve because there's no place in the universe without gravity

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:16:34 2019 No.10554661 >>10554651 This is a bait.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:17:31 2019 No.10554663 >>10554616 What is light ?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:18:34 2019 No.10554670 >>10554663 Something that can move through the Higgs field unfettered

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:27:01 2019 No.10554687 >>10554655 If you’re going to nuance this so far as spacetime curvature then sure, no straight lines exist outside of human abstraction.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:30:54 2019 No.10554696 >>10554651 >molecular level don't fucking care he showed you a straight line you lose

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:33:30 2019 No.10554704 Define straight. Geodesic exist and light always follows geodesic paths.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:33:39 2019 No.10554706 >>10554687 >nuance this far Are you implying relativistic reality is somehow not real? I don't understand what you're getting at >>10554696 But it's not straight

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:34:13 2019 No.10554710 >>10554646 There is not a single straight line in that picture.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:39:19 2019 No.10554728 File: 9 KB, 456x429, iceIh.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10554651 >>10554706 >>10554710 WE NEED TO GO DEEPER

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:56:06 2019 No.10554777 >>10554706 Where the hell did I say that. Calm the fuck down sperg, jesus lol.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:58:17 2019 No.10554783 Thanks a lot OP. Time to play some more sc4. If only people would let me design their cities it would be utopias everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:58:19 2019 No.10554784 >>10554616 They exist in the real of forms

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 15:51:14 2019 No.10555062 >>10554616 Straight sexuality is a human abstraction, there aren't any straight humans in the universe. True or false?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 15:52:25 2019 No.10555068 >>10554616 R E T I C U L A T I N G S P L I N E S

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:03:38 2019 No.10555093 The only "straight" shape that exists in nature is a slightly curved shape. This is due to entropy. >>10554616 >>10554644 Not even humans can make straight lines. >>10554646 Those are not straight lines.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:53:39 2019 No.10555210 >>10555062 Probably true

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:59:50 2019 No.10555222 >>10554728 yo dem white things that hold them bolbs togethere apear to be straight lines, my dude.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:31:54 2019 No.10555310 >>10554616 Your mom travels in straight line to my house when I dial "Hoe" on my phone.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:38:43 2019 No.10555321 >>10554616 Lines aren't a physical objects. They exist, but nothing made if matter could perfectly match a line.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 22:02:43 2019 No.10555894 >>10554616 Spomeone show him a crystal

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 22:10:06 2019 No.10555905 >>10555904 Wow big

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 04:16:08 2019 No.10556550 >>10554616 >he doesn't know about Newtonian physics OP, 4chan is an 18+ website, you 3rd graders aren't allowed here. Also isn't it past your bedtime?

Anonymous Sun Apr 14 04:23:09 2019 No.10556558

>>10555068
I really miss Sim City.

Nothing else comes close. Thetevare other city simulators but they suck ass. Once EA bought Maxis and the marketingfags realized they could sell their computer doll house (The Sims) to future thots for $$$, they stopped developing Sim City, except for that always-online shit, yeah great idea for a game that mostly appeals to introverts force them to always be connected and do a piss poor job at that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 04:37:31 2019 No.10556583 >>10554653 >>10554655 Light follows a straight trajectory, it's the spacetime itself that is curved. But within that spacetime the light is going straight

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 09:12:08 2019 No.10557043 Arrangement of atoms in CO2 molecule is along a straight line. Faggot.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 11:56:37 2019 No.10557393 File: 17 KB, 230x219, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10557059 b....brother?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 12:11:15 2019 No.10557428 >>10557043 Elaborate? Show me the straight line? >>10554649 The trajectory is an abstraction. Light does not exist as a straight line at any point in time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 13:07:01 2019 No.10557528 >>10556558 I don't ever get tired of sim city 4, get the mod that fixes traffic path finding

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 14:36:33 2019 No.10557773 >>10557043 Nope, unless you cool it down to 0K, which is impossible. Above that the atoms vibrate, as per definition, thus they can't be in a straight line.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 14:41:21 2019 No.10557781 if you take literal definition of "line" then no. but if we think in finite terms of line segments then yes. they have egineered perfectly smooth surfaces before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 16:15:34 2019 No.10558067 >>10554616 >True or false? False, Time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 16:19:34 2019 No.10558077 >>10557773 Based and chemistrypilled

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 17:17:48 2019 No.10558265 >>10557773 I mean even if you can say three things line up in space is it the same as a straight line existing? For example, any two things in space can be said to have a straight line between them but isn't that just abstraction?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 20:38:15 2019 No.10558713 >>10554616 Define a straight line.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 20:41:31 2019 No.10558720 >>10558713 A line that isn't curved :D

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 22:45:09 2019 No.10558997 >>10554616 Riticulating splines

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 22:50:58 2019 No.10559002 my PEE pee is straight when I wake up :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 22:52:29 2019 No.10559009 >>10556583 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 22:57:30 2019 No.10559025 File: 12 KB, 400x400, Autism_Speaks_Logo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10554616

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 23:27:46 2019 No.10559087 >>10556583 The path it travels through time may be straight but in space there is no line at any given point

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 04:28:00 2019 No.10559570 >>10554655 dumbass, light goes straight it's the universe that's curved

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 04:42:13 2019 No.10559593 >>10555321 >>Lines aren't a physical objects. >>10555321 >They exist, i bet you think that numbers ''''''''''''''''''''exist''''''''''''''''''''

Anonymous Mon Apr 15 05:22:46 2019 No.10559647
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>>10554616
The edges of the squares in the grid of Planck areas that coats the surface of the infinitely large universe which is the holographic film for existence.
A grid of squares projected onto the surface of a normal sphere would result in curved edges, but not on an infinitely large sphere coated in finite squares.

Checkmate,

DOUBLE.

NIGGER.

Anonymous Mon Apr 15 06:39:28 2019 No.10559759

>>10554616

>pick up a ruler
> place ruler onto sheet of paper
> use hands to put pressure upon ruler to stop it from sliding around
> take pencil
> Draw a line while keeping the tip of the pencil in contact with the ruler’s spine
> conglaturatuons you just invented straight lines

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 06:50:27 2019 No.10559778 >>10554616 In the same way there's no such thing as a perfect circle except in an abstract way. At least not that we have seen. If the universe is infinite there is a 100% chance that straight lines and circles exist in the physical as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 07:04:21 2019 No.10559803 >>10555093 Physicist brainlete trying to math

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 07:29:13 2019 No.10559846 >>10554616 true

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 07:31:19 2019 No.10559850 Human abstractions exist in the universe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 12:15:24 2019 No.10560418 >>10558067 Since when is time a straight line? Time bends and contracts same as space.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 12:59:13 2019 No.10560484 >>10560418 Only in relation to other things. Your internal clock will always ticks forward at the speed of now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 13:08:21 2019 No.10560500 >>10554616 Answer was True, thanks to everyone that participated. Thread has now ceased.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 13:12:12 2019 No.10560506 File: 33 KB, 443x390, cat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10560484 So you're saying a straight line is not a straight line from another point of view? But from my point of view it's perfectly straight?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 14:11:29 2019 No.10560651 >>10554655 it goes straight, youre the one thats curved

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 17:49:58 2019 No.10561201 File: 150 KB, 744x389, irrr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODjoVcuK54

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 17:51:28 2019 No.10561204 False but too obvious to explain why

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 17:52:47 2019 No.10561206 >Straight lines are a human abstraction, there aren't any straight lines in the universe. All lines, by definition, are straight. Next question.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 17:56:08 2019 No.10561214 File: 9 KB, 300x225, 300px-Power_Lines.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10561206 what about telephone lines??

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 18:14:02 2019 No.10561250 False. Straight lines do exist. Just because you can bend the paper doesnt mean there wasnt a straight line drawn on it to begin with.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 18:16:55 2019 No.10561261 Everything is gay!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 18:20:37 2019 No.10561270 everything is composed of particles, particles are not straight imaginary lines between two particles don't exist s dont even (you) me with that shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 18:23:29 2019 No.10561278 >>10561270 imaginary lines are real nibba just ask quantum physicists

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 18:48:03 2019 No.10561331 >>10561278 actually a quantum physicist told me imaginary lines aren't real. His name if Geromie and he is really smart

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 19:45:50 2019 No.10561447 File: 1.86 MB, 202x175, 1555257091711.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10559778 Unlike straight lines, there are perfect circles. A slice of the observable universe would be a perfect circle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 15 19:49:52 2019 No.10561457 Just Google fractal dimension FFS

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 11:36:39 2019 No.10563064 >>10561447 >A slice of the observable universe would be a perfect circle What

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 12:10:44 2019 No.10563160 >>10560506 Relativity and frames of reference nigger.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 12:16:22 2019 No.10563171 File: 303 KB, 642x705, 1527438056534.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] God draws straight lines with crooked paths.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 13:16:44 2019 No.10563304 >>10557528 is there a mod that fixes the game crashing on quadcore processors?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 13:21:50 2019 No.10563319 numbers and logical systems aren't based in reality. they're drawn on it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 14:08:38 2019 No.10563468 >>10555905 For you

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 14:17:02 2019 No.10563493 >>10554651 >Not straight on a molecular level, not straight on an atomic level, not even remotely straight on a relativistic level, not even remotely straight on a quantum level. How I describe my sexuality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 16:26:12 2019 No.10563954 one thing is for sure, nobody itt is straight

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 16 16:49:43 2019 No.10564005 This is a bad question. >>10554616

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 01:15:19 2019 No.10565362 >>10555068 Sims 1 is the best sims

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 01:21:51 2019 No.10565379 Every single thing is an abstraction name something not an abstraction?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 02:30:31 2019 No.10565480 >>10554706 >But it's not straight yes it is

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 02:32:19 2019 No.10565485 >>10557428 >The trajectory is an abstraction. no it's not

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 02:39:48 2019 No.10565501 >>10554663 Damn sure not a line?? I'd vote particle or wave.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 03:09:43 2019 No.10565549 >>10554616 >implying something doesn't exist because humans cannot observe it

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 04:22:59 2019 No.10565658 >>10554616 did anyone make levels in simcity and then play them on simcars and simcopter

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 04:44:55 2019 No.10565696 >>10554616 Yes. No mathematical object exists in the real world. Math is completely meaningless and tautological and means absolutely nothing. It is useful as a language to describe the world and thats it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:17:42 2019 No.10566378 >>10565379 The Sun

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:24:09 2019 No.10566390 >>10565485 yes it is

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:34:12 2019 No.10566409 >>10554616 >implying human abstraction is somehow separate from the universe how do I even answer this question when it's flawed from the start you actual retard

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:35:44 2019 No.10566415 File: 120 KB, 1024x683, Aptiva-2134-361.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10566409 >human abstraction is somehow separate from the universe It is. A word computer is an abstraction. An actual computer in front of you is not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:39:55 2019 No.10566424 >>10566415 but the electric signals and chemicals in my brain that made that abstraction are ultimately a part of the universe. if you could see everything my brain was doing you could rebuild the abstraction

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:44:21 2019 No.10566439

Geometry is the study of space, not the objects within that space but the space itself.

Take any two objects in space and the shortest line between them will always be a straight line. It doesn't matter that such a straight line cannot be drawn, it nevertheless exists as part of the space.

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:45:05 2019 No.10566443

>>10563493
>Brings up personal sexuality in a completely unrelated conversation.
What an obnoxious faggot.

>>10554616
Depends on how autistic you want to be about it. Since dots don't exist in reality (infinitely small restriction of space), the sum of all dots inbetween two dots can't exist either (infinite "thinness").

But if you aren't autistic about it, there's countless of lines in our universe that would be perceived as straight lines by the vast majority of people because those lines would fit their requirements for straightness (most people have a good amount of tolerance for the concept of straightness).

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:45:18 2019 No.10566444 >>10566424 Abstractions are not a direct representation of reality, regardless of them being grounded in reality. That has nothing to do with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:47:55 2019 No.10566456 >>10566444 wrong. An abstraction or an idea is still something that is taking place in some form of energy or mass in the universe whether you like it or not. there is not explaining it away.

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 11:51:21 2019 No.10566467

>>10566456
But it's indirect. It could as well be a hallucination and you would never know.

What you're trying to claim is there's no distinction between the subjective and objective which if we were having a philosophical discussion I would probably entertain but since this is a scientific discussion it's a ridiculous point to argue.

tl;dr "no". Next question

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 12:00:05 2019 No.10566495 >>10566456 wrong and gay

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 14:35:20 2019 No.10566906 >>10554616 RETICULATING SPLINES

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 14:38:32 2019 No.10566914 >>10563493 Sodomites and their aberrant behavior are not welcome on /sci/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 15:34:15 2019 No.10567075 I like to think that a Black Hole is an ideal sphere, but you'll tell me that it's not.

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 17:45:35 2019 No.10567383

>>10567075
what you're describing as a black hole is nothing more than the imaginary region we consider to represent the boundary created by the event horizon. This boundary represents a specific threshold continuous field. This threshold, though unambiguous, does not physically exist any more than the threshold between any other sphere and it's exterior around the hole
So yeah black holes are'nt spheres

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 17:51:36 2019 No.10567401 >>10565696 This is the non-meme answer. Disperse, brainlets.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 18:20:07 2019 No.10567513 >>10563304 Not sure. I don't have too much trouble. Occasional crashes but it just got me in the habit of saving the same more often. There's still a surprisingly active community if one were so inclined to seek them out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 18:37:55 2019 No.10567560 >>10558713 the only sensible response in this thread so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 20:29:53 2019 No.10567897 >>10554616 Subjectively straight, sure Objectively straight, probably not. This is especially true if everything is composed of waves, which I guess would be the antitheses of straight.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 20:50:21 2019 No.10567952 >>10563064 What part do you not understand?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 20:52:07 2019 No.10567957 >>10567075 The event horizon is also not spherical if there's any rotation

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 20:56:14 2019 No.10567964 >>10561447 The observable universe is an abstraction in the sense that it's a measured area. I could take a spherical measurement out of area and take a slice of it, and it'd be a perfect circle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 20:57:57 2019 No.10567968 >it’s another “humans made it up so it doesn’t REALLY exist” thread aren’t you faggots tired of this bait yet

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 21:02:48 2019 No.10567974 >>10567401 except the hinge of an ark shell is a straight line, the only one not formed via gravity. Though you could get pedantic and say at the quantum level nothing is perfectly straight but then you're just a faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:21:50 2019 No.10568149 >>10567897 This is a bit of a thought experiment, but supposing that if everything is composed of waves, then at a particular moment given the right set of circumstances could there not be something that could be considered straight?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:24:30 2019 No.10568158 Uncertainty principle means you can't know if something is a "perfect" line or not. Logically that also means you can't know if anything is real. Everything is an illusion. Good job OP.

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:25:57 2019 No.10568164

>>10567968
>x isn't true prove me wrong
>no not with that evidence
>no not with THAT evidence
>not that evidence either
>why are you guys getting so mad do you hate inquiry or something
OP is either an entitled masturbatory prick who can't be taught a damn thing or so thickheaded that making people want to strangle him still counts as the good kind of attention

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:28:27 2019 No.10568172

>>10568158
1. you have no idea what the uncertainty principle is
2. "nothing exists except your own brain checkmate everybody else i win all philosophy" is, to date, the only idea on human history more useless then your parent's decision to have you
congratulations. you win. nothing is real. feeling warm and fuzzy? reveling in your logical infallibility? now get the fuck out and give us an idea that actually accomplishes something

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:30:22 2019 No.10568179 >>10566415 >An actual computer in front of you is not. Schizophrenics see "actual" objects, and make "real" connections between them. Does that mean schizophrenics are in another objective reality that you and I do not have access to?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:35:16 2019 No.10568193 >>10554616 >Straight lines are a human abstraction, there aren't any straight lines in the universe Human abstractions exist inside the universe, where else would they exist.

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:35:27 2019 No.10568196

>>10568172
1. The product of delta x and delta y is greater than or equal to half of h-bar. EZ
2. You can't prove your brain exists. You can't prove anything exists. You can't even prove cause and effect exists. Science is useless. You aren't even a figment of your imagination.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:39:37 2019 No.10568210 >>10568193 >imagining a straight line is the same as a straight line

Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:46:09 2019 No.10568222
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I mean technically speaking everything that exists, by nature to its creation, is necessarily less perfect than the ideal ‘form’ of said object or thing.

For instance, if one wants to make a box, technically the box will not be composed of exactly straight lines, but the idea of it will. This idea is a lot like a personal philosophy one tries to apply to the world around him. It won’t work out exactly as intended, but it will be damn close. And the reason is, that when you have a project to complete, you have to try and make sure it gets completed, see the idea through to the end.

In other words, for something straight to have existed, the idea of it must have existed first. Even if no one thought it. Look into Aristotle’s Metaphysics

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 22:46:41 2019 No.10568224 >>10568210 imagine imagining that imagined straight lines were somehow not a part of reality

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 23:27:52 2019 No.10568321 God exists because I imagine it. See ya gaytheists

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 17 23:30:26 2019 No.10568327 >>10556583 superlative /thread again

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 05:03:09 2019 No.10568740 >>10554651 >Be a human >Literally all your thoughts are abstractions Also all distances are straight lines. The Cartesian space is the abstraction.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 06:05:29 2019 No.10568801 what about string theory if the universe is made of string you can take a tiny peice of that string and it'd be strait right and if not you just take a smaller peice and you just keep going until its straight also electrons????????

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 06:09:10 2019 No.10568802 >>10565485 Name 1 (one) "straight" trajectory.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 07:01:54 2019 No.10568891 >>10568801 Strings are circles

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 07:04:07 2019 No.10568897 You accelerate in a straight line toward the center of the Earth.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 07:33:11 2019 No.10568956 OP is so gay, he can't even think of a straight line.

Anonymous Thu Apr 18 09:21:46 2019 No.10569193

False, anything visible is made of straight lines. Curved lines do not reflect light-photons and therefore anything that does reflect light is made of very straight line formations! In fact I will go so far as to say anything detectable can be reduced at some point to a straight line! Even if it appears perfectly curved!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 10:09:46 2019 No.10569302 >>10568897 But that's not an actual line

Anonymous Thu Apr 18 18:31:24 2019 No.10570501
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>>10569302
What makes it "not actual"? Your center of gravity is being pulled in a straight line toward the center of the Earth's gravity. There is a direct, physical, causal relationship between the two, and it is in the form of a straight line.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 18:58:58 2019 No.10570556 >>10570501 Different anon, but it's not a perfectly straight line as the earth isn't a perfect circle, so, gravity isn't distributed exactly evenly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:02:32 2019 No.10570559 >>10570556 not if you look at an infinitesimal point.

Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:14:17 2019 No.10570573
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>>10570556
The center of gravity is the center of gravity. Earth could be shaped like a pancake, it could be shaped like a meatball, it could be shaped like a donut. There is always going to be a center of gravity, where the displacement of spacetime is at its maximum. This will naturally draw anything else towards it in a straight line. In the case of you, your center of gravity and the Earth's center of gravity are drawing toward one another in a straight line.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:15:30 2019 No.10570577 >>10554649 Lite follows null geodesics.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:32:21 2019 No.10570618 False Geodesics are straight lines in curved space. If you want a straight line that looks like a Euclidean straight line, zoom in. Space is locally flat on small scales.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:43:06 2019 No.10570643 >>10570573 Looks like curved spacetime to me

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:50:25 2019 No.10570658 >>10570643 Yes, curved spacetime. The universe doesn't care about euclidian definitions of "straight line".

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 19:58:30 2019 No.10570675 >>10568956 rekt

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 22:57:50 2019 No.10571027 >>10554706 >a line of shortest distance between two points is not straight jesus how retarded can you get

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 18 22:58:55 2019 No.10571031 >>10557773 the line moves, but it's still straight. as long as you don't add a third point, it's still straight.

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Anonymous Fri Apr 19 03:41:44 2019 No.10571457
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Straight lines and geometric shapes are all over the place.

This line of questioning sounds like what happens when you get preening pseudo intellectuals from sociology or something trying to make inroads into actual science fields.
They just try and endlessly doubt everything, move the discussion backwards, be deliberately obtuse and just generally annoying because they hate being aware their field is fucking useless.

Fuck off.

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