Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I’ve started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.
You made an enemy out of a sitter today. You’ve turned Willem de Sitter into Willem Dafoe.
xkcd #3077: de Sitter
Submitted 3 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.world
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Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ksigley@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There really is an xkcd for everything.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love reading about physics things that I just can’t conceptualize. Spaces with more or fewer than 360 degrees of rotation? Cool, I absolutely can’t imagine it
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Try drawing a triangle on a globe and measure the angles, it will be more than 180 degrees. That’s probably the simplest visualisation possible.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look at you, making it all easy to understand