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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Neutrinos travel in a straight line.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately (fortunately?) the space they're traveling through is curved. It was a good attempt though neutrinos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Edwin A. Abbott has entered the chat...

[–] Blue_Morpho 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It appears curved to us because we mathematically transformed the reference frame.

If you are allowed to transform your geometric space to say "no straight lines" then there are no straight lines in math either. Because you could perform a transform on the straight line into a curved geometry.

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

I'm with you, I was mostly joking. This whole question just hinges on definitions of "straight line" and "flat plane" anyways.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 1 points 9 months ago

The neutrino neither knows that nor does it care about it.

In it's reality, the line remains perfectly straight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not to mention quantum fuzzing

[–] Krudler 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They don't, although they ~~do not~~ "rarely" interact with other particles, they move as waves, like all other energy in the universe.

[–] Blue_Morpho 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“I want to emphasize that light comes in this form-particles. It is very important to know that light behaves like particles, especially for those of you who have gone to school, where you were probably told something about light behaving like waves. I’m telling you the way it does behave- like particles.”

Richard Feynman, “QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.” Introduction, Page 15.

[–] Krudler 0 points 9 months ago

You're talking to somebody that studies particle physics okay.