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The earth/moon system is speeding around the sun at hundreds of thousands of km/h.
The speed and precision required to reach the moon without the earth/moon system disappearing into the distance must have been remarkable.
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Yes!
It's exactly the same precision that's involved in putting a cup down on a table without breaking the table, the cup, or your hand!
Isn't Physics wonderful!
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Be nice. Calculus isn't included in computing courses.
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Yes it is, computer engineering has calculus, physics, electronics, etc. A lot of it
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Something after the weekend[^]?
Maxxx wrote: Time isn't really a dimension at all
Neither is x, y and z - they're just convenient mathematical abstractions ... just like r, θ and φ
- and I suppose you already knew that well enough ... 
I've been told our universe just sits in a valley ...
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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I'm just impressed you worked out how to type greek letters
Espen Harlinn wrote: r, θ and φ
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Maxxx wrote: I'm just impressed you worked out how to type greek letters
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V 
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Cheat!
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A curve is N dimensional.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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So does light travel in a ray or does it not
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Yes it doesn't. Or no it does. It's definitely one of those.
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But a ray cannot deviate from a straight line. Light however can bend due to gravity. Someone has been lying but the question is who.
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Pete Zahir wrote: But a ray cannot deviate from a straight line.
Says who? If that's your a priori definition of ray then light doesn't travel in one. No contradiction. No lying.
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I can prove it does deviate with a simple mirror, or prism... 
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There we have it!
Everyone take heed, because CP's expert on deviation hath spake.
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I'll...um...take that as a complement?
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Seriously?
Where did they teach you this stuff?
"Ray" is a descriptive word, used to describe what light looks like, to the human eye. It's not a "thing" in its own right, and it's not measurable (so it can't be used in any kind of calculation), even though it's used in grammatical structures that make it look determinant.
i.e. "a pound of sugar" and "a ray of light" might look the same, and give the impression that "ray" is determinant, but it's not. It doesn't matter how big or small a ray of light is, it's still just "a ray of light".
So you can't talk about rays as if they're separate from light. They are light -- or a non-unit-ish unit of light.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: They are light
Search google for 'a ray of manure' ... you'll get a hit og two 
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Whoa, that's the gardening department. Might as well be Greek that's been google-translated to Hawaiian, for me.
Through that door, and talk to the missus.
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Ray of manure? My aunt was married to him. Stinky old walking piece of Sh.t.
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Gravity distorts space, the "ray" travels through space in a straight line, it's space that bends.
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Both.
Because of Quantum. 
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Yes it can be quite quarky.
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It's a charming effect!
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