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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: How do you draw a straight line?
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- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 19:54:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct8.115013.2533@nuscc.nus.sg> scip1061@nuscc.nus.sg (Marc Paul Jozef) writes:
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- > The spacetime metric of GR defines geodesics
- >in spacetime. A string or a rod or whatever
- >define world*sheets* in spacetime; `straightness'
- >of a line has nothing to do with geodesics of GR.
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- While it's true that over time a rod covers a 2-dimensional surface
- in spacetime, the closest thing there is to a straight (spacelike) line
- in GR is a spacelike geodesic.
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