Report, edit, etc...Posted by InFeReAl_KiLlA on 2005-03-11 at 23:38:40
Is the line of two points really the shortest distance between the two points? I'm not like some Science/Math nerd.. And I'm also in eighth grade.. Thank you, whoever can actually explain it into simple terms I can actually understand.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by notnuclearrabbit on 2005-03-11 at 23:46:36
[center]The Pythagorean Theorem kinda explains this... You have a right triangle: ∆ (Just pretned, okay?) One side of the triangle is 3, another 4, and the hypotenuse (Longest side) is 5. If you go from the top left point (A), to the bottom right point (B), going along the 3 unit long side, then the 4, you end up going a total distance of 7 units. If you shoot straight from A to B, using the long side of the triangle, you cover a total distance of only 5. Easy math time! 5<7? TRUE!
There you have it![/center]
There you have it![/center]
Report, edit, etc...Posted by InFeReAl_KiLlA on 2005-03-11 at 23:58:26
Hmm, good point.. But look at it this way... (I saw this on TV) Lets say you were traveling in space.. A Few million light-years away from your destinated point, can there be a way to get there faster? A dude on Channel 13 or 7 (anyone who lives in New York should know...) said a line is not necessarily the shortest distance between two points... He then said a Wormhole is the shortest distance (or something like that...) Its like folding a paper... and poking a hole through it. Someone explain that to me..
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SpaceBoy2000 on 2005-03-12 at 01:16:42
What you're talking about is basically bending space. Imagine you're on one end of a piece of paper, and you're trying to get to the other side. the shortest point would be to walk all the way across the paper in a straight line. What the tv guy was talking about would be the equivalent to folding the piece of paper, which would bring the other side closer, therefore making the distance less.
But for all intents and purposes, yes, a straight line is the shortest distance betwee two points.
But for all intents and purposes, yes, a straight line is the shortest distance betwee two points.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ScrollMaker on 2005-03-12 at 01:42:36
You take that example from A Wrinkle in Time?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathknight on 2005-03-12 at 01:47:38
Unfourtinately, space is not a paper. Image a huge brick. Can you fold the brick in half?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SpaceBoy2000 on 2005-03-12 at 01:47:42
Hmm, kinda. But I was thinking more along the lines of space bending, like how it's theorized to "bend" from gravity. There was an interesting article I read some time ago on this subject, I'll see if I can dig it up.
EDIT: BTW, this is all....fringe science. The type where you look at and say, "Nice idea, but you're crazy" kinda fringe.
EDIT: BTW, this is all....fringe science. The type where you look at and say, "Nice idea, but you're crazy" kinda fringe.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mr.Kirbycode774 on 2005-03-12 at 01:53:48
QUOTE(Ðeathknight @ Mar 11 2005, 10:47 PM)
Unfourtinately, space is not a paper. Image a huge brick. Can you fold the brick in half?
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God probably could, but then he'd need some duct tape and super-glue to fix the shattered universe.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Lisk on 2005-03-12 at 07:01:19
Bend or not bend but still a straight line is the shortest way.
ok... you'll figure it out later, dumbfuсks
ok... you'll figure it out later, dumbfuсks
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Neiji on 2005-03-12 at 10:01:39
Those diagrams don't help at all, Lisk...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by BeeR_KeG on 2005-03-12 at 11:03:59
x[sup]2[/sup]+y[sup]2[/sup]=r[sup]2[/sup]
Tan[sup]-1([/sup][sup]y[/sup]/[sub]x[/sub]) = angle of elevation from your horizontal
x = horizontal lenght from your point to the destination
y = vertical lenght from your point to the destination
r = the radius or lenght of the diagonal formed by x and y
Geometricaly that is the shortest way from point A to point B
Tan[sup]-1([/sup][sup]y[/sup]/[sub]x[/sub]) = angle of elevation from your horizontal
x = horizontal lenght from your point to the destination
y = vertical lenght from your point to the destination
r = the radius or lenght of the diagonal formed by x and y
Geometricaly that is the shortest way from point A to point B
Report, edit, etc...Posted by InFeReAl_KiLlA on 2005-03-12 at 15:45:32
So this has something to do with trigonometry??? And isn't trigonometry like a high school topic?? I'm only in eighth grade... Woh... And thats a triangle your talking about right? (Psst, you spelled length wrong!!) And Lisk, your diagrams look like demented happy faces 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Lisk on 2005-03-12 at 17:10:33
AFTER you bend something a straight line is still the shortest way in our 3rd world
Report, edit, etc...Posted by M_s4 on 2005-03-12 at 17:11:54
NO IT DOESNT! You people are simply thinking too hard! The line IS the shortest way from point A to B! TRIGONOMETRY FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS?! 