Uh, I'm just trying to understand this here.. say I had a perfectly flat plane, and I drew a set of perfectly parallel lines- does this mean that I could theoretically draw a third line that was parallel to one, but intersected the other-- in the real world? If some parts of space are hyperbolic and other parts are elliptical, does that mean that from the point of view of one line, a parallel line would look wavy? Would a plane that followed euclidean geometry actually be wavy?
I haven't actually read much about relativity, so forgive me if I'm not making sense...
2006-07-11
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