Good Lord! I'm not writing what I'm thinking today. I've got to be too tired from staying up for the fireworks last night. Here's what that sentence should have said:
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| Thus the time taken to cover the total distance traveled should be the same according to the laws of physics. |
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Originally Posted by Mark Dexter
Oy. I'm glad I never took physics at Georgetown! How can the length of a straight line between two points be the same length as a parabola connecting those points?
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Non-Euclidean geometry.
BTW while I took that class in DC, it was taught by the visiting Dean of Yale.