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Re: The flat earth notion
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 17:19 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Nov 5, 17:19 +1100
Recently I was reading another book that did its best to make clear notions about warped time/space. Along the way it asserted that if I set off into the universe in a straight line eventually I would find myself back here again. I thought this was wonderful, although I found it as difficult to understand as I guess a flat-earther would the idea that he could set off in a straight line across the earth's surface and eventually arrive back at his starting point - assuming he followed a great circle, of course! As I understand it, a Rhumb Line would only lead him to a Pole? The concept also vindicates that hitherto fictional Celestial Sphere? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Guinon" > While we laugh at the dimensional chauvinists of yester year who believed the > Earth was flat, how many of us are comfortable with our three dimensional space > being curved and distorted rather than flat?
