• Re: Is Curved Space An Improvement Over The Use of the Concept of Force

    From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 17 09:42:15 2024
    W dniu 17.11.2024 o 08:50, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog pisze:
    On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:48:09 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    Is Curved Space An Improvement Over The Use of the Concept of Forces?

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    The following text has been edited very little from the version that
    I added to Wikipedia in April 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Is_spacetime_really_curved?

    Is spacetime really curved?

    In Poincaré's conventionalist views, the essential criteria according
    to which one should select a Euclidean versus non-Euclidean geometry
    would be economy and simplicity. A realist would say that Einstein
    discovered spacetime to be non-Euclidean.


    A self appointed realist, of course.

    Still, while Poincare didn't understand much
    about the language conventions, the basics he
    understood correctly.
    And it's well seen on the example of the
    worshippers of The Shit: while they have to
    insist on their non-euclidean nonsenses for
    religious reasons - they really always apply
    Euclid. Economy and simplicity - rules; common
    sense was warning your idiot guru.

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