Pigeon_Droppings2
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You could draw a level line around the earth and it would be circular
I thought the earth was flat water cant go round cornersYour not standing on a tall enough ladder
Be a b I t c h if your putting up shelvesYou could draw a level line around the earth and it would be circular
I’d like it but need to understand it first.
Second time today I didn’t get it
I thought the earth was flat water cant go round corners
Be a b I t c h if your putting up shelves
Accurate, a Curate.
You could draw a level line around the earth and it would be circular
Would that be flat
Would that be flat
It would in 1 plane.
Which reminds me....how many sides does a circle have?
How many forum members does it take to calibrate a level
Some of you lot would never manage to sort a lightbulb
It would in 1 plane.
Which reminds me....how many sides does a circle have?
I remember having an argument with my art teacher at school when he announced to the class that a line is the only one dimensional shape. He claimed a line only had a 'size' in one dimension. I pointed out that my pencil said it was half a mill wide, and it kind of spiralled from there.
A line connects two points - but not always by the shortest route. A circle describes a disk, and hence has a plane. (But it still has an inside and outside when it's a circle; but not when it's a disk)
That was exactly my argument. Essentially, everything has to be three dimensional. Even if the pencil left a single atom of 'lead', it would still have 3 dimensions. Any more in depth than that and we are into quantum physics, which is a bit above an art teachers pay grade.A pencil line has a width of course, it also has to have a thickness, else it wouldn't be there. So dimension wise, it is no different to a piece of 4x 2 wood.
I would enjoy a discussion on the difference between "non-Euclidean" and "not Euclidean" but I wonder if that's of interest to anyone else.