Allan Jones
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Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Could the earth technically be a flat plain but is bent through 5th dimensional space making us see it as a sphere? Similar to how interstellar suggests a wormhole would appear spherical in the three dimensions we can interpret?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A sphere passing through a plane looks like a circle to the flatlands living there.
A hypersphere (4D and higher) passing through three dimensions will look like a sphere to three dimensional beings, such as us.
The curvature of spacetime is tracked, almost by definition, by the path a beam of light takes. If the curved surface of Earth were caused by the curvature of spacetime, then light beams would curve along with it, and they don't.
A hypersphere (4D and higher) passing through three dimensions will look like a sphere to three dimensional beings, such as us.
The curvature of spacetime is tracked, almost by definition, by the path a beam of light takes. If the curved surface of Earth were caused by the curvature of spacetime, then light beams would curve along with it, and they don't.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Science contains so many fields, and each field contains different subjects. How many basic/most common scientific fields are there. Ex: Biology for organic life, geology for natural science, math (lol) For every scientific field, they all have properties or characteristics that define them. Then, in order to develop, they need theories. What are some of your favorite OOTW scientific thesis's/developments?
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