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School is just one simplification after the other (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bonus, it only travels through a straight line through curved space, so to an outside observer the light did curve.

[–] Alexstarfire 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why does light get to be so special? It makes the rest of us feel bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can also move in a straight line but still go on a curve to an outside observer, just make the outside observer something off earth and walk a significant portion of the circumference of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ooo I guess planes are a good example

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That's less light being special and more space thinking it's funny to fuck with physicists by not being euclidean