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dreadforks: 14-billion-years-later: (Geometric) Rules are Meant To Be BrokenAnyone who has ever been subject to a math class featuring geometry or trigonometry will be able to tell you that ALL triangles have internal angles equal to 180 degrees. Yet here we have a picture of an orange with a triangle composing of entirely right angles. All the geometric rules for making a triangle apply, it’s simply the surface that makes the difference. To get a better understanding of why this is a triangle imagine that you are some small bug on the surface of that orange, you have no idea that it is a sphere and you set out to make a triangle. No matter what you do you will always end up with a shape that has angles greater than 180 degrees. Now imagine you’re a human, on a planet, floating through curved space-time… Every triangle you’ve ever drawn has had internal angles greater than 180 degrees. the hook not mentioned: no lines, only arcs or curves compose the sides of the “triangle”. Dreadforks’ commentary ftw!! Geometry gets me all hot and bothered x) Lovely photograph.

dreadforks:

14-billion-years-later:

(Geometric) Rules are Meant To Be Broken

Anyone who has ever been subject to a math class featuring geometry or trigonometry will be able to tell you that ALL triangles have internal angles equal to 180 degrees. Yet here we have a picture of an orange with a triangle composing of entirely right angles. All the geometric rules for making a triangle apply, it’s simply the surface that makes the difference. To get a better understanding of why this is a triangle imagine that you are some small bug on the surface of that orange, you have no idea that it is a sphere and you set out to make a triangle. No matter what you do you will always end up with a shape that has angles greater than 180 degrees. Now imagine you’re a human, on a planet, floating through curved space-time… Every triangle you’ve ever drawn has had internal angles greater than 180 degrees.

the hook not mentioned: no lines, only arcs or curves compose the sides of the “triangle”.

Dreadforks’ commentary ftw!! Geometry gets me all hot and bothered x) Lovely photograph.
  1. fourscoreandsevenyears reblogged this from askinnyblackman and added:
    I’m so confused
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    Well… That isn’t the same “kind” of triangle… if you drew that triangle on a flat surface it would look pretty funny...
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    BUT IT’S NOT A RECTILINEAL FIGUREEEEEE
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    all rules/laws are designed around a simple reference plane, but if you take that simple, flat, static reference plane...
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    doesnt anyone teach recreational math anymore??
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