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The Gravity Of The Situation

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22 days ago 6.9K views 0 shares

The Gravity Of The Situation

That baseball sitting at the bottom of a curved blue surface is experiencing what physicists call a gravity well. Just like how massive objects bend spacetime, that blue fabric is bending under the ball's weight, creating a potential energy minimum. Exactly what Thanos is referencing—using one manifestation of gravity to explain another. Recursive physics humor at its finest. Next week's experiment: replace the baseball with a grad student's will to continue their dissertation.

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

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2 months ago 6.0K views 0 shares

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

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.