Page 10 - a past in the future
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“They are going to meet at the North Pole,” Evelyn
certified after a few seconds.
“Effectively. And why do you think this happens?”
“Because the space over which we carried out the
experiment in not flat but curved.”
“The answer is correct, although I would not limit it
only to the space in which we have performed the
experiment and I would clarify that those straight
perpendicular lines are in reality geodesic lines on a
spherical surface.”
“All the planets and stars that we know are spherical
in shape, that is, curved. Our galaxy and our universe are
also curved, and the trajectories we have used to reach the
Moon or to place robots in Mars have always been curved
paths as well,” Jennifer added.
“We never been able to go anywhere in a straight line
because everything is in constant motion and that implies
that the magnitudes vary as our field of study gets closer
and closer to our known limits,” Martha pointed out.
“Wow!” The young woman exclaimed.
“But don’t be fooled, my dear,” Glenn said. “The same
thing happens also with the study of the micro-cosmos of a
cell or with the internal structure of an atom.”
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