• thejoker954@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I feel like this is related to the can’t measure the coast’ thing.

    Like if you zoom in enough you are always traveling in a straight line.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t know… straight, I would assume, means that I could walk or drive a vehicle and not turn at all, ignoring any external influences like waves and currents in this case.

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        3 months ago

        But your vehicle would itself “curve” “downwards” due to gravity, surely a straight line means that you can point a laser, or a hypothetical 0 mass particle beam, uninterrupted from your starting point to your destination.

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          3 months ago

          Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.

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          3 months ago

          in ur every day life if u travel in a car without changing direction would u say that u went in a straight line or in an arc. Clearly u are just trying to be a pedantic cunt for no reason.