No perfect circles in space...

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There's another issue, which is that we're only ever dealing with our observations and our filtered information, rather than reality itself. So we have no fricking clue what's really going on, we can just assume (without loss of functionality) that it's something like what we observe.

What I'm really saying is that what we imagine to be a "circle in space" may be utter nonsense in relation to reality, even if it relates well to our observations.

This is really just my philosophical mental masturbation. Carry on