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   litewave to All   
   Re: Keep Talking...   
   23 Mar 18 13:15:26   
   
   From: litewave99@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 6:28:30 PM UTC+1, a_rod_777 wrote:   
   > On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 1:58:19 AM UTC-6, litewave wrote:   
      
   > > So you think there are circles that are not circles?   
   >    
   > Is a straight line a circle? No you say?   
   > But isn't space curved? So technically any straight line is actually   
   slightly curved.   
      
   Generally, you cannot have a straight line in a curved surface (except certain   
   cases, for example a vertical straight line in the surface of a vertical   
   cylinder). Our space is usually curved only a little, so what we call straight   
   lines are not perfectly    
   straight but their deviation from a straight line is negligible for practical   
   purposes.   
      
   > So straight lines do not exist? Then how do we get perfect squares?   
      
   They don't exist in our curved space. They can exist in flat spaces, but we   
   don't live in a flat space.   
      
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