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Perfect in a single-body universe, perhaps, but the gravity field of a particle is perturbed by other nearby particles - where "nearby" is relative to precision
by IAmBroom 1y ago
Perfect in a single-body universe, perhaps, but the gravity field of a particle is perturbed by other nearby particles - where "nearby" is relative to precision desired - and therefore never a perfect sphere.
Or, to put it another way, so-called "perfect circles" exist in a real, 4-D, wibbly-wobbly gravity-distorted space, and are no longer perfect Cartesian circles.
They still only exist theoretically; not in practice.
- mjburgess 1y agoCircularity is still a property of the process. One requires perfect circles to describe it. It is also easy enough to construct circular state spaces, and the like. The idea that what's real is simply the geometry of macroscopic visible matter, or even of matter alone, is a nonesense. The world is "immanently abstract", and possess primeness, circularity, etc. in itself -- not as something merely imagined. This is obvious from the physical description of its evolution. Irregularity, of this kind, is derivative of a geometrical reality. The irregular doesn't govern the irregular, if it did, there would be no structure whatsoever.
- anthk 1y agoPerfect circles just exist on probabily using 2pi for random directions and overall statistics.