Bet you clever gits can't answer that correctly......
2007-01-09 20:11:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
When it is a gay line?
2007-01-09 20:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by bashnick 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
your thinking paper with two dots. There is only the one way, the straight line.
What you need to think is Map! still a paper, just more detail and more direction. Now you put you two points on this paper and try to find the shortest distance. I bet you a million bucks its not a straight line.
2007-01-09 20:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by infiniteson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about curved space?
Take a piece of paper, put two points on the paper then fold the paper so both points touch each other. There is no longer any distance between those two points.
Good enough? and I'm thick.
Of course you may be referring to space flight when sling shotting using gravitational pull gets the space ship from point A to target much quicker.
2007-01-09 20:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shortest distance between two points is always a geodesic.
Geodesics are only straight lines in flat geometries. These are actually rare because even gravity curves space time.
So the answer is "almost always".
2007-01-09 22:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shortest distance may not be a possible path to take given the obstacles and resources at your command. Critical path method would compare the alternatives in order to select the most effective route.
2016-05-23 02:52:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shortest distance between any two points is a straight line.
unless the two point coincide
2007-01-09 20:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by rr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two points on the circumference of a circle can be joined forming a chord, this is then the shortest distance. This is true of any two points, even on a sphere such as Earth, irrespective of whether you can physically travel them.
2007-01-09 21:20:38 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the two points are at the same place.
2007-01-10 07:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Chris H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This short sentence is not a straight line.
Thanks for the 2 points.
2007-01-09 20:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Joseph Manners 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ginger is right. That's why airplanes don't fly in a straight line. If you look at airline routes, they take a curved path.
2007-01-09 20:20:18 · answer #10 · answered by Sydney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the two points are in a curved space - it's called a geodesic.
2007-01-09 20:39:32 · answer #11 · answered by Iridflare 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋