Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature?

• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, if you zoom far enough, its just a few atoms floating around in mostly nothing.

  Define “flat” and “straight”

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  • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay! Can do!

    Defnitions: Flat (adjective), My chest. Example My chest was flatter than an angle measured at 180°

    Straight (adjective) anything that has perfect parallelism to my chest. (See notes)

    Notes (Straight): Straight cannot be used as an adjective to describe my sexuality.

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    • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a serious note though, on a micro enough scale, everything will become bumpy/not a single linear thing. On a macro enough scale it would be impossible to determine variation and appear flat.

      In a common human sense, many things are flat and linear to normal human perception. Many crystal and metal formations have flat, straight, and sharp features.

      And something theorized to be existing and straight would be (iirc) the planck length. Light so energized that the wave becomes essentially linear (please verify because this is memory only)

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