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At least The Man Will Never Fly Society knows the Earth is round - otherwise the Greyhound buses would fall off the edge.
by thrill 8y ago
At least The Man Will Never Fly Society knows the Earth is round - otherwise the Greyhound buses would fall off the edge.
- contravariant 8y agoThat's not true at all, the Earth could be toroidal, which allows for a flat embedding.
- credit_guy 8y agoMaybe it’s worth mentioning that this flat embedding is a consequence of the Nash embedding theorem. The same Nash as in the Nash equilibrium, or in A Beautiful Mind. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorem