I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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no science teacher would ever say that.
Light travels in a straight line, plenty of crystals, linear erosion, many trees evolved to be as straight as possible...
and to be esoteric, every object path, even when gravity affects them (they travel in a perfectly straight line, but it is spacetime that is curved).
no science teacher would ever say that.
Careful with those absolute statements there buddy. I was told the same by a teacher, who challenged the class to come up with natural examples of either straight lines or perfect circles. He talked about how such things cannot exist because at high enough resolution/magnification there will always be interruptions.
Your own example of light traveling in straight lines doesn't account for the fact that photons are waves and absolutely do not travel in straight lines.
they do tavel in a perfectly straight line though.
space time is curved, not the light path.
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Only a Sith!
It travels in a straight line, just not in every dimension. Look at a waveform from above, it's a straight line.
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We can say that spatially, the summation of the photons movement is linear, but everything in the universe is waves and curves and we all know that to be true
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I work in public education. That's a pretty innocuous statement compared to some of the shit I've heard. Some teachers get so complacent in their lessons that they forget to apply it in their critical-thinking. Then, they have some crazy logical lapse, say something ridiculous out loud, and then some other kid from that class repeats that same shit to their own students when they grow up. These are mistakes that could easily be rectified with an apology or deliberate correction, but teachers are pushed so hard to prioritize being an authority figure that they sometimes forget to just be a teacher.
I'm going to pull a no true Scotsman, no good teacher would say that.
yhea, there are teachers that lose it a bit.
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Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.
It's useful as a navigational aid, if you're lost in the woods keeping an eye open for straight lines, especially horizontal, is a good way of finding man made structures and potentially a way out. Beyond that, on a micro scale nature loves perfect geometry.
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Worked as a physicist for 30 years, nobody talks like that. Everyone else in the room is to smart, and will slap you down for using absolutes.
>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.
Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.
Ahem... "too".
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That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.
Think you'd rather catch an art teacher saying that than a scientist tbh.
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Straight lines are it’s Bismuth.
Most scientists won't say that there are no straight lines in nature, it's so obviously and provably wrong. I think it's more of a thing philosophically said when talking about how modern life is so different and unnatural compared to the lives of ancient people or animals.
I wonder if there's any animals who see crystals in nature and think "wow that's a really cool rock".
Birds definitely think this. My local Magpies have definitely attempted bribery with cool rocks and shiny discarded human objects
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Straight line and sharp corners in almost all crystals.
Nice eg. in Ireland
And this is why absolute statements are generally bad arguments. It only takes one example to disprove them.
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just because someone calls themself a scientist doesnt mean they are, as evidenced by that post
what about evil wizards who call themselves scientists? legit, or no?
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Wildcats are nature, they have multiple very sharp corners.
No need to go that far, I have one set of sharp corners sitting right on my lap. Also help, I'm trapped. :(
Your lap has been chosen! You cannot move until you are allowed to move.
Quite ironic.
Only a Fool would have missed this gold
Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?
Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.
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Technically fibers in wood is straight.
I want to say ice has straight edges
well done OP, you really stuck it to those stupid scientists
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I must confess, this sparked a laugh
This pointiness, it’s nature’s gaff
Give me a siiiiign
Fool me baby one more time
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We exist within nature, so nature created linear particle accelerators.
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