The Nature of the Universe

[Kemrain]

I don't see how the universe can be "flat". There's no way it can be linear"; it'd have to have all three dimensions and quite possibly a fourth as well to encompass everything that exists within it. There's just too much mass to suggest otherwise and mass definitely isn't flat nor linear.

I don't think this is what people mean whe nthey say that space is flat. They mean that space isn't curved. For instance, if you have 2 paralell lines, they'll never cross is space is flat. But if there's a curve they could intersect, eventually.

- Kemrain the Not Sure Sie Gets It.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I don't think this is what people mean whe nthey say that space is flat. They mean that space isn't curved. For instance, if you have 2 paralell lines, they'll never cross is space is flat. But if there's a curve they could intersect, eventually.

- Kemrain the Not Sure Sie Gets It.

If you have 2 parallel lines, if both curve then they still won't cross. But if one is, then there's a possibility, depending on which one is curved.

 

[mythusmage]

If you have 2 parallel lines, if both curve then they still won't cross. But if one is, then there's a possibility, depending on which one is curved.

Not that kind of curve. We're referring to parallel lines on a surface that itself curves. As on a sphere for instance.

Peter: Do you know why parallel lines never meet?

B.C.: Nobody introduces them?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Not that kind of curve. We're referring to parallel lines on a surface that itself curves. As on a sphere for instance.

Bell curve?!