Re:Go east from Seattle
by defrost on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:07PM
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> There is unambiguously one direction at Seattle (tangent to the Earth's surface)
and that tangent is the straight line, at least it is within the R^3 spatial universe I live within.
There's confusion here as the article presumes humans to be bound to an S^2 manifold and to consider a Great Circle to be a "straight line" which it certainly is not unless one lives within an S^2 Flatland.
and that tangent is the straight line, at least it is within the R^3 spatial universe I live within.
There's confusion here as the article presumes humans to be bound to an S^2 manifold and to consider a Great Circle to be a "straight line" which it certainly is not unless one lives within an S^2 Flatland.