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For There We Are Captured—The Geometry of Spacetime

All about me there are angles— strange angles that have no counterparts on the earth. I am desperately afraid. ~Frank Belknap Long, The Hounds of Tindalos Whoever…proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured. ~Albrecht Durer I was recently asked: What does it mean when we say spacetime is “curved” or “flat?” The answer lies in the interface between differential geometry and physics. This is the latest in many articles I’ve written on Einstein’s relativity, so you might want to check out my series on faster-than-light