Posted: Oct 27, 2016 10:15 am
scott1328 wrote:The surface of a sphere is two dimensional and the Pythagorean theorem does not hold. in fact, if our space-time is non Euclidean then the Pythagorean theorem is only an approximation of how our universe works.
And, even if that were the case, it would nonetheless remain true that, within a Euclidean system, the Pythagorean theorem holds. This is the case even if no Euclidean universe physically exists. So "Wortfish" has managed the impressive feat of being wrong in at least two different ways with a single statement.
