Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity (Or Just At The Poles)

Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity (Or Just At The Poles)
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Euclidean geometry lies in shambles as two bugs on a sphere completely wreck the concept of parallel lines! The top panel shows our confident mathematician declaring "their trajectories will never cross" about two insects walking along what appear to be parallel lines on a grid. But the bottom panel reveals the brutal truth - on a curved surface like a sphere, those "parallel" lines inevitably converge at the poles. Non-Euclidean geometry strikes again! It's like telling someone their relationship is going nowhere and then watching them get married. Geometry professors are quietly sobbing right now.

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