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Considering that space is not curved or warped (as some pop books will falsely lead you to believe) why is that Euclidean Geometry is not true in the real world?
I mean light bends in space because it falls in a gravitational field like everything else (because it has energy which is equivalent to mass), why choose them to draw straight lines when we know they won't travel in a straight line if they have a huge mass near them, if i imagine straight lines and a triangle in space i don't see any reason to think that the sum of their internal angles will not be 180.
i mean i don't make triangles on Earth by throwing baseballs in the sky.
I mean light bends in space because it falls in a gravitational field like everything else (because it has energy which is equivalent to mass), why choose them to draw straight lines when we know they won't travel in a straight line if they have a huge mass near them, if i imagine straight lines and a triangle in space i don't see any reason to think that the sum of their internal angles will not be 180.
i mean i don't make triangles on Earth by throwing baseballs in the sky.