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I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
no science teacher would ever say that.
Light travels in a straight line, plenty of crystals, linear erosion, many trees evolved to be as straight as possible…
and to be esoteric, every object path, even when gravity affects them (they travel in a perfectly straight line, but it is spacetime that is curved).
no science teacher would ever say that.
Careful with those absolute statements there buddy. I was told the same by a teacher, who challenged the class to come up with natural examples of either straight lines or perfect circles. He talked about how such things cannot exist because at high enough resolution/magnification there will always be interruptions.
Your own example of light traveling in straight lines doesn’t account for the fact that photons are waves and absolutely do not travel in straight lines.
they do tavel in a perfectly straight line though.
space time is curved, not the light path.
False because they are affected by gravity, even if ever so slightly
But isn’t the gravity bending the space, so the light itself is travelling straight but seems curved to the observer?
Hmm, I’m not actually sure. Are we also ignoring refraction and reflection because the path is straight between those? If we’re talking discrete photons, you may be correct about each segment in its path being perfectly straight, but I’m not a theoretical physicist.
“through vacuum”
gravity isn’t a force, it’s the curvature of space-time itself.
light follows a perfectly straight line through vacuum. the space itself isn’t straight.
like drawing a straight line on a flat paper, if you roll the paper, that line is still straight within it’s medium.
Newtonian gravity has been replaced by General relativity, and has been proven to be the correct model (at least more correct than Newtonian gravity).
Makes sense to me. Thanks
Only a Sith!
But photons are also particles.
In that case that Pyrite proves nothing.
Photons are both particles and waves, not only waves (that’s because of the wave-particle duality discovered by/after Einstein’s theories).
It travels in a straight line, just not in every dimension. Look at a waveform from above, it’s a straight line.
that’s just silly
Is it inaccurate?
plain wrong
Apparently it is
We can say that spatially, the summation of the photons movement is linear, but everything in the universe is waves and curves and we all know that to be true
if by straight you mean a perfect eucledian line, then there’s no such thing as a perfect line in nature or reality.
as that might violate the Eisenberg Uncertainty principle. because if I know two points position or or if I know the direction and one point I’ll know the position and direction of every point.
but then that’s too esoteric.
You are clearly full of shit and have no idea what you’re talking about, and your flip-flopping between positions
it’s a meme channel, it’s a stupid question, you get stupid answers.
I’m not putting my name in a paper saying definitely of straight exist in nature.
Counterpoint: shut the fuck up
you literally have the power to shut people up at will, just block em, faster and more effective.
Your username has a typo in it
Don’t do drugs.
Wayyy to late partner
It’s useful as a navigational aid, if you’re lost in the woods keeping an eye open for straight lines, especially horizontal, is a good way of finding man made structures and potentially a way out. Beyond that, on a micro scale nature loves perfect geometry.
Yeah, it’s a very stupid concept made into a very stupid meme to make dumb people feel dopamine over the concept of scientists being allegedly dumber than them.
I really hate our species sometimes.
Worked as a physicist for 30 years, nobody talks like that. Everyone else in the room is to smart, and will slap you down for using absolutes.
>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.
For some reason your comment makes me think of this
Think you’d rather catch an art teacher saying that than a scientist tbh.
That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.
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Straight lines are it’s Bismuth.
Is the gas form called Bismeth?
Bizmist
Bizmuthn’t
Most scientists won’t say that there are no straight lines in nature, it’s so obviously and provably wrong. I think it’s more of a thing philosophically said when talking about how modern life is so different and unnatural compared to the lives of ancient people or animals.
Quite ironic.
Only a Fool would have missed this gold
I must confess, this sparked a laugh
This pointiness, it’s nature’s gaff
Give me a siiiiign
Fool me baby one more time
As you can see the pyrite is pointy and not pointless
Does it still have straight lines under a microscope?
That‘s the worst part: at atomic scale, the fucker is made out of smaller… cubes
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/crystal-structure-of-pyrite-3add26cf08b74346afb1d689c78b7144
Those appear to octahedrons
the dual of a cube is an octahedron after all
The dual is kinda the exact opposite, by definition. From an orthogonal perspective, cube is the wrongest possible word.
Technically fibers in wood is straight.
I want to say ice has straight edges
And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.
Only Siths deal in absolutes
Mostly Siths deal in absolutes.
