Geometric Experiment

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-01-09 07:02pm

I need help, I believe this falls under Rhimean(SP?) geometry.

Suppose I make my own world, where a circle is 540 of our degrees. What happens?

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-01-09 07:07pm

*head explodes as he struggles to think of what that would mean*

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-09 07:17pm

Straha wrote:I need help, I believe this falls under Rhimean(SP?) geometry.

Suppose I make my own world, where a circle is 540 of our degrees. What happens?

people are going to worship you, because you´re god.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-09 07:18pm

Straha wrote:Suppose I make my own world, where a circle is 540 of our degrees. What happens?

Does this have any practical application?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-01-09 07:25pm

Then sites and bbs's like this one will pop up debunking you exist and they'll start to wonder what it would be like if circles had 720 degrees in them.

This depends entirely upon whether or not the mathematics are the same, is the degree smaller or is the circle geometrically different. Are you saying that circumferance is now 3pi(r) or just that 1 degree = pi/270?
If you are saying that a circle's circumferance is now 3pi(r) and assuming that pi is the same it is visually impossible for two dimensions. At least in our reality's physics and mathematics.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-01-09 07:29pm

Good luck describing it. The human brain would have an easier time comprehending an object existing in four spatial dimensions than it would a circle with more or less than 360 degrees that's still a circle.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-01-09 07:32pm

I suspect in such a universe that life itself couldn't exist, at least not as we know it. If such extremely basic fundamental constants like the number of degrees in a circle are altered, it's likely that the whole of mathematics, and with it physics, chemistry, and every other science would be radically different from what we know here. Since biological processes rely on a great number of laws of physics being precisely the way they are, biology as we know it couldn't exist in such a universe.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-01-09 08:16pm

Straha wrote:I need help, I believe this falls under Rhimean(SP?) geometry.

Suppose I make my own world, where a circle is 540 of our degrees. What happens?

You'd have 270 little tick marks around a protractor instead of 180.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-09 08:19pm

IT IS THE LOST CITY OF R'YLEH!

THE SLEEPER HAS BEEN DISTURBED!

CTHULHU AWAKENS!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-09 11:14pm

Thats impossible. A circle is an shape where all points of the edge are equal distance from the center. This forces it to be 360 of our degrees because out degrees are defined as 1/360 of a circle.

You could, however, make a shape that is one circle connected to another but this would end up akin to a distorted cone.

IT IS THE LOST CITY OF R'YLEH!

THE SLEEPER HAS BEEN DISTURBED!

CTHULHU AWAKENS!

Sounds like the Dune quote.. "The sleeper has awakened!!". And I believe its R'lyeh but hey, thats typos

Oh yeah, almost forgot..

http://www.machall.com/index.php?do_com ... 0101-11111

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-09 11:22pm

btw, its Riemann.

THE UNIVERSE IS WOOD NOT MARBLE!!

.. Kudos to anyone who gets that besides the originator of this thread.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-10 12:44am

kojikun wrote:btw, its Riemann.

THE UNIVERSE IS WOOD NOT MARBLE!!

.. Kudos to anyone who gets that besides the originator of this thread.

Einstein? It was somebody involved with Quantum physics, I think.

Cthulhu-chan · Post by **Cthulhu-chan** » 2003-01-10 02:01am

IT IS THE LOST CITY OF R'YLEH!

THE SLEEPER HAS BEEN DISTURBED!

CTHULHU AWAKENS!

Goddammit, jes' lemme sleep in a bit... godda fuggin' hangover...

Damn Nyarlathotep an' his keggers...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-10 08:48am

you could make one circle and place half a circle on the first circle and then connect the beginning point of the half circle with a random point on the full circle and then connect the end point of the half circle with the corresponding point on the full circle. it works in 3d programs but it doesnt really make any sence i could think of.

Sindai · Post by **Sindai** » 2003-01-10 04:46pm

kojikun wrote:Oh yeah, almost forgot..

http://www.machall.com/index.php?do_com ... 0101-11111

You should really turn that into a hotlink like I have. Using [IMG] tags to call on images on other people's websites is bandwidth theft unless you have permission.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-10 05:07pm

salm wrote:you could make one circle and place half a circle on the first circle and then connect the beginning point of the half circle with a random point on the full circle and then connect the end point of the half circle with the corresponding point on the full circle. it works in 3d programs but it doesnt really make any sence i could think of.

What about a snowman shape? it would still not make much sense, but we're just throwing out hypothetical stuff anyway.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-10 05:47pm

Einstein? It was somebody involved with Quantum physics, I think.

Woo! Yes! To Einstein, the world should be made of marble (geometry) and that everything is merely deformations of geometry. Wood, to him, was the physical, the matter, the stuff that needed to be turned into marble by finnagling with numbers and figuring out why matter should be merely kinks in the geometry of space.

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