What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

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What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

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RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved?

June 5, 2017 at 6:37 pm

(June 5, 2017 at 10:27 am)Alex K Wrote: One more along vorlon's lines: the angle sum in a triangle in general isn't 180 degrees anymore. How much it deviates from 180 is directly proportional to the amount of curvature enclosed in the triangle.

I had one helluva time grasping this until a TA I had took three push pins and a length of twine. With these, she constructed a triangle on a globe of the earth, then handed me a protractor and invited me to measure the interior angles. Crystal clear, after that.

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What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Rhondazvous - June 5, 2017 at 10:06 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 5, 2017 at 10:14 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 5, 2017 at 10:17 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Foxaèr - June 5, 2017 at 10:20 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by LadyForCamus - June 5, 2017 at 9:25 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by ignoramus - June 6, 2017 at 8:29 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 5, 2017 at 10:27 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 5, 2017 at 6:37 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 5, 2017 at 7:03 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Anomalocaris - June 5, 2017 at 11:25 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Rhondazvous - June 6, 2017 at 4:22 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Neo-Scholastic - June 5, 2017 at 12:39 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 5, 2017 at 1:38 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by ignoramus - June 5, 2017 at 6:10 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 5, 2017 at 6:16 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 5, 2017 at 6:50 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 5, 2017 at 6:56 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 5, 2017 at 6:59 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 6, 2017 at 3:58 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Jehanne - June 13, 2017 at 3:28 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 13, 2017 at 5:47 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Jehanne - June 14, 2017 at 3:10 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 14, 2017 at 5:05 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Jehanne - June 15, 2017 at 9:20 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 15, 2017 at 11:36 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Jehanne - June 15, 2017 at 1:05 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Anomalocaris - June 15, 2017 at 7:41 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Alex K - June 16, 2017 at 2:16 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by Jehanne - June 16, 2017 at 9:46 am

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 14, 2017 at 3:20 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by brewer - June 14, 2017 at 3:21 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 14, 2017 at 3:24 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by vorlon13 - June 15, 2017 at 9:44 pm

RE: What Did Einstein Mean when He Said Space is Curved? - by snowtracks - June 16, 2017 at 1:35 am

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