Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.
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MohamedMoney@feddit.org 1 day ago
I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
glimse@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s useful as a navigational aid, if you’re lost in the woods keeping an eye open for straight lines, especially horizontal, is a good way of finding man made structures and potentially a way out. Beyond that, on a micro scale nature loves perfect geometry.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, it’s a very stupid concept made into a very stupid meme to make dumb people feel dopamine over the concept of scientists being allegedly dumber than them.
I really hate our species sometimes.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
no science teacher would ever say that.
Light travels in a straight line, plenty of crystals, linear erosion, many trees evolved to be as straight as possible…
and to be esoteric, every object path, even when gravity affects them (they travel in a perfectly straight line, but it is spacetime that is curved).
fartographer@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I work in public education. That’s a pretty innocuous statement compared to some of the shit I’ve heard. Some teachers get so complacent in their lessons that they forget to apply it in their critical-thinking. Then, they have some crazy logical lapse, say something ridiculous out loud, and then some other kid from that class repeats that same shit to their own students when they grow up. These are mistakes that could easily be rectified with an apology or deliberate correction, but teachers are pushed so hard to prioritize being an authority figure that they sometimes forget to just be a teacher.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m going to pull a no true Scotsman, no good teacher would say that.
yhea, there are teachers that lose it a bit.
mrsemi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Careful with those absolute statements there buddy. I was told the same by a teacher, who challenged the class to come up with natural examples of either straight lines or perfect circles. He talked about how such things cannot exist because at high enough resolution/magnification there will always be interruptions.
Your own example of light traveling in straight lines doesn’t account for the fact that photons are waves and absolutely do not travel in straight lines.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It travels in a straight line, just not in every dimension. Look at a waveform from above, it’s a straight line.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Astonished
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
they do tavel in a perfectly straight line though.
space time is curved, not the light path.
SystemDisc@feddit.org 1 day ago
False because they are affected by gravity, even if ever so slightly
nehal3m@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Only a Sith!
Klear@piefed.world 1 day ago
In that case that Pyrite proves nothing.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
But photons are also particles.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We can say that spatially, the summation of the photons movement is linear, but everything in the universe is waves and curves and we all know that to be true
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if by straight you mean a perfect eucledian line, then there’s no such thing as a perfect line in nature or reality.
as that might violate the Eisenberg Uncertainty principle. because if I know two points position or or if I know the direction and one point I’ll know the position and direction of every point.
but then that’s too esoteric.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You are clearly full of shit and have no idea what you’re talking about, and your flip-flopping between positions
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Your username has a typo in it