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Anonymous Wed 05 May 10:31:53 2021 No.13079242 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13079248 >>13079269 >>13079354

>Archimedes & Apollonius derived the geometry of an Ellipse 2300 years ago
>It is discovered in 1600CE that planetary motion is elliptical (in an ideal 2 body problem)

Does this freak anyone else out? How the hell does our universe follow the mathematical abstractions that some guys found out tinkering on paper, 2000 years prior?

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:34:33 No.13079248 Report

Quoted By: >>13079262 >>13079263

>>13079242
How else could a non-circular orbit be? It seems like any type of gravity that would result in non-elliptical orbits would be stupidly complex.

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:43:49 No.13079262 Report

Quoted By: >>13079281

>>13079248
Why shouldn't it be stupidly complex? How the fuck does a force that tugs galaxies billions of light years away get described by the simplest square law?

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:45:24 No.13079263 Report

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>>13079248
Square

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:49:41 No.13079269 Report

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>>13079242
>How the hell does our universe follow the mathematical abstractions that some guys found out tinkering on paper, 2000 years prior?
How else would the universe be created? Magic?

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:55:36 No.13079281 Report

Quoted By: >>13079310

>>13079262
It is stupidly more complex. Gravity obeys Einstein's equations of general relativity and Newton's inverse square law is only an approximation that works for sufficiently large r.

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 11:06:03 No.13079310 Report

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>>13079281
The real red pill is that GR is also just an approximation. Geometric Unity is the way

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 11:33:08 No.13079354 Report

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>>13079242
Do not think about it. This is the beginning of insanity.

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