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    Re: The flat earth notion
    From: Herbert Prinz
    Date: 2003 Nov 5, 04:24 -0500

    Peter Fogg wrote:
    
    > Recently I was reading another book that did its best to make clear notions
    > about warped time/space. Along the way it asserted that if I set off into
    > the universe in a straight line eventually I would find myself back here
    > again.
    
    Not necessarily. Curved or warped does not imply spherical. In a cylindrical
    universe you can follow a geodesic forever without ever coming back.
    
    >  As I understand it, a Rhumb Line would only lead him to a Pole?
    
    On a spheroidal earth, if you proceed on a rhumb line with constant speed, you
    will arrive at a pole after a finite time. You won't be able to stop your vessel
    at this very moment, because of your inertia . This raises the puzzling
    question: Where will you be a second after you will have passed through the
    pole? Neither Dutton nor Bowditch has the answer.
    
    Herbert Prinz
    
    
    

       
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