Beauty And Mathematics | Professor Alexander Pruss
The Thomistic Institute
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Euclidean Geometry
I think God would like to seize things from all the possible points of view. The Euclidean point of view is, I guess, one of them. There's a kind of beautiful diversity in non-Euclidean geometry that you get at a greater diversity of structures possible. And they're all also Euclidean locally, or approximately Euclidean. He zoomed in on an all Euclidean space and behaves like a Euclideanspace approximately. But there's a way in which not Einstein's theory. Kind of maybe helps with that mystery that Newton didn't want to make hypotheses about - why we've got this kind of gravity stuff.
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