What Einstein has to say about High School Geometry.
If you read Albert Einstein’s book about his theory of Relativity, you’ll find that his first chapter debunks geometry (Euclidian geometry in particular – the type we learn in High School). He calls it a complete falsification of known fact.
Some of the things he claims are wrong.
1: There is no straight line in the Universe.
2: All of the measurements you get from geometry are off. For instance, the area of a cirle is not Pi R Square except in a very specific circumstance where the circle is perfectly motionless (with you as a inertial reference) and you are measuring it in that state. You would also have to be in a place where there is no gravity. Only then can the measurement be accurate according to the formula geometry gives you. Otherwise gravity and speed warp time and space so that your ruler that you measure the circle with is no longer a fixed length. Even the spinning of the circle makes its dimensions change.
This is borne out by the fact that global positioning satellites subscribe a giant circle as they orbit the Earth. But the warping of space occurs because of the movement of the object through space and the gravitation field of the Earth. This makes the calculations of the satellite go way, way off course unless the calculations are corrected for the changes in the fabric of space because of the speed of the craft and the warping of time and space caused by the mass of the Earth.
So all you get with your high school geometry is a tool good enough to approximate every day calculations. Once you test it in the extreme, the calculations can no longer apply. They are simply become incorrect and must be disgarded.
Now the calculations of Isaac Newton are good enough to send our space craft to Mars accurately but they, too, are disregarded when very precise measurements must be taken. Albert Einstein’s calculations must be used for very precise measurements.
Also, Nasa, itself, is telling you what they know is incorrect when they say that gravity is a force that pulls you down. It is nothing of the sort. It is the warping of time and space. Einstein proved this in 1905, over 100 years ago. It is interesting that most school children are taught wrong things out of ignorance or out of convenience..
I urge all parents to learn the true science and instruct their kids on what people have known for over a century. That way they don’t grow up ignorant. The future is theirs and they must be included in the science that exists today, not the science that was proven false 100 years ago.
