Monthly Archives: April 2017

Dedekind tessellation or circles all the way down

“Turtles all the way down” is an expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the “unmoved mover” paradox. The metaphor in the anecdote represents a popular notion of the model that Earth is actually flat and is … Continue reading

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Real magic – space-time in Lie algebra

We start with a partial recall of events as they transpired so far. A month ago we became hyperbolic. The post Getting hyperbolic started with this sentence: Without knowing it, during the last three posts (Our first field expedition, Our … Continue reading

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Geodesics on the upper half-plane – parametrization

The last note ended with the following problem: Thus: geodesics are circles. Or better: straight lines are circles! In fact: half-circles, because their centers are on the x-axis, and our arena is only upper half-plane. Except that we have missed … Continue reading

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