bloom_of_rakes@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agoDo straight lines and flat planes exist in nature?message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down14
arrow-up174arrow-down1message-squareDo straight lines and flat planes exist in nature?bloom_of_rakes@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squaretobogganablaze@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down4·edit-29 months agoLines and planes in the mathematical sense are 1 and 2 dimensional. They don’t have any height (and lines also no width). So they can’t exist as a physical object made out of atoms as they are already 3 dimensional. They only exist as a concept.
minus-squarebloom_of_rakes@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10·9 months agoThen, o pedant, do straight or flat objects (thus linelike, planelike) exist?
minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·9 months agoWhy ask a pedantic question and be upset by a pedantic answer?
minus-squarebloom_of_rakes@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·9 months agoYou are merely seeing through pedantic eyes.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-29 months agoGraphene is a great example of a planar molecule, within 1 atom of tolerance. Graphene is found in naturally occurring graphite rocks.
minus-squarebloom_of_rakes@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoYou could get serious Van der Waals off a couple sheets of that.
minus-squareinlandempire@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months agoTheir manifestation in our world was limited, they have already gone to another plane of existence
Lines and planes in the mathematical sense are 1 and 2 dimensional. They don’t have any height (and lines also no width). So they can’t exist as a physical object made out of atoms as they are already 3 dimensional.
They only exist as a concept.
Then, o pedant, do straight or flat objects (thus linelike, planelike) exist?
Why ask a pedantic question and be upset by a pedantic answer?
You are merely seeing through pedantic eyes.
Graphene is a great example of a planar molecule, within 1 atom of tolerance. Graphene is found in naturally occurring graphite rocks.
You could get serious Van der Waals off a couple sheets of that.
Their manifestation in our world was limited, they have already gone to another plane of existence