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   Athel Cornish-Bowden to Thomas Heger   
   Re: Space   
   07 Oct 25 10:57:44   
   
   From: me@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2025-10-07 08:04:43 +0000, Thomas Heger said:   
      
   > Am Sonntag000005, 05.10.2025 um 12:32 schrieb Mikko:   
   >> On 2025-10-05 09:06:40 +0000, Thomas Heger said:   
   >>   
   >>> Am Samstag000004, 04.10.2025 um 20:42 schrieb kinak:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Curved space has got to be wrong.   
   >>>> Where are the corners?   
   >>>   
   >>> 'Space' is not existing 'a priori' but meant as caused by a geometric   
   >>>  relation to the local axis of time.   
   >>   
   >> Geometric relations don't exist except as features of a space.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Geometry is also possible in other spaces than Euclidean space.   
      
   Gosh. You've managed to reach the point that Nikolai Lobachevsky was at   
   in 1929. Not quite 200 years, but approaching it.   
      
   > Actually there is a huge branch of mathematics called 'geometric   
   > algebra', to which this belongs:   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra_of_physical_space   
   >   
   >   
   > TH   
      
      
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