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>not even orthogonal Sorry for nitpicking, but I just couldn't get this to leave my mind. I understand that you were going for a wordplay with "not even wrong"
by falcor84 8y ago
>not even orthogonal
Sorry for nitpicking, but I just couldn't get this to leave my mind. I understand that you were going for a wordplay with "not even wrong", but I'm still trying to imagine whether there's a geometric interpretation to make sense of this.
Would this imply that the angle between the two things cannot be defined? If so, what would be a possible situation here?
- dragonwriter 8y ago> but I'm still trying to imagine whether there's a geometric interpretation to make sense of this. Well, I suppose there's a framework in which orthogonal could imply coplanar and so skew lines would.be “not even orthogonal”; particularly they'd have no contact at all irrespective of relative alignment.
- Pharmakon 8y agoI have to admit that it was just a play on words, and except for dragonwriter’s formulation I have nothing to offer on this one. On the other hand I enjoyed your comment, and didn’t find it nitpicky at all.
- zenpeace 8y agoThis is actually quite possible in non-Euclidean geometries even for things that usually have angles in real world [1]. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry