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   Athel Cornish-Bowden to Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   Re: Space   
   07 Oct 25 17:44:30   
   
   From: me@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2025-10-07 08:57:44 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   1829   
      
   >  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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