Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Relativity claims to have proven that parallel lines meet. Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:42:10 -0800 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 30 Message-ID: <67908532.7C80@ix.netcom.com> References: <00939c17919600807e3ad6527b47e74d@www.novabbs.com> <8e4d47b49b0d08a32c4d241a7bd9f85c@www.novabbs.com> <3d134676dad974fcfee511fe7270d781@www.novabbs.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:41:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6cbe1a04b8fcb5b5d13c5b27396bbf45"; logging-data="851329"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ig6JHdjUakRdCaRkqrS/h5TRkiqIU87U=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:qjZT/HAHZ3SRaiVbJL16jv8CyS8= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250121-12, 01/21/2025), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:660686 LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:30:17 +0000, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:26:08 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: > > > >> This is necessary because it claims to have proven the doubling of the > >> Newtonian deflection, which involves curved space and parallel lines > >> meeting. > > > > You really don't understand any of this. > You really don't understand logic, as proven by your failure to answer > the criticism directly by resorting to ad hominem. You lose. Every artist knows parallel lines meet. If you draw a drawing of a city...the parallel lines meet to a point. It is the point of perspective. But it is an illusion. Parallel lines don't meet before the big bang... -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.