Quite ironic.

I can’t quite get over the fact that the premise is false

Only a Fool would have missed this gold

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).

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

if by straight you mean a perfect eucledian line, then there's no such thing as a perfect line in nature or reality.

as that might violate the Eisenberg Uncertainty principle. because if I know two points position or or if I know the direction and one point I'll know the position and direction of every point.

but then that's too esoteric.

I must confess, this sparked a laugh

This pointiness, it’s nature’s gaff

Give me a siiiiign

Fool me baby one more time

they do tavel in a perfectly straight line though.

space time is curved, not the light path.

Only a Sith!

In that case that Pyrite proves nothing.

Bismuth has joined the chat

Straight lines are it’s Bismuth.

Your username has a typo in it

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.

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.

You are clearly full of shit and have no idea what you're talking about, and your flip-flopping between positions

As you can see the pyrite is pointy and not pointless

Think you'd rather catch an art teacher saying that than a scientist tbh.

Is the gas form called Bismeth?

Does it still have straight lines under a microscope?

Don't do drugs.

it's a meme channel, it's a stupid question, you get stupid answers.

I'm not putting my name in a paper saying definitely of straight exist in nature.

I don’t think that’s right because they are affected by gravity, even if ever so slightly

But isn't the gravity bending the space, so the light itself is travelling straight but seems curved to the observer?

Hmm, I’m not actually sure. Are we also ignoring refraction and reflection because the path is straight between those? If we’re talking discrete photons, you may be correct about each segment in its path being perfectly straight, but I’m not a theoretical physicist.

gravity isn't a force, it's the curvature of space-time itself.

light follows a perfectly straight line through vacuum. the space itself isn't straight.

like drawing a straight line on a flat paper, if you roll the paper, that line is still straight within it's medium.

Newtonian gravity has been replaced by General relativity, and has been proven to be the correct model (at least more correct than Newtonian gravity).

"through vacuum"

Bizmist

>nobody
You should be slapped as well then.

Well it’s about time someone picked up on that one. It was low hanging fruit.

Bizmuthn’t

Makes sense to me. Thanks

Counterpoint: shut the fuck up

But photons are also particles.

you literally have the power to shut people up at will, just block em, faster and more effective.

Wayyy to late partner

Photons are both particles and waves, not only waves (that's because of the wave-particle duality discovered by/after Einstein's theories).

That explains why the Sith were rarely seen in the sciences.

Yeah, it's a very stupid concept made into a very stupid meme to make dumb people feel dopamine over the concept of scientists being allegedly dumber than them.

I really hate our species sometimes.

Technically fibers in wood is straight.

I want to say ice has straight edges

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.

For some reason your comment makes me think of this

I wonder if there's any animals who see crystals in nature and think "wow that's a really cool rock".

Ahem... "too".

We exist within nature, so nature created linear particle accelerators.

Birds definitely think this. My local Magpies have definitely attempted bribery with cool rocks and shiny discarded human objects

Memes like this are so dumb. Laugh tracks for the internet.

Tbh, I've only ever heard it when talking about camouflage. And tbf in that context it is somewhat true, you're harder to see if you break up those straight lines.

Does it still have straight lines if you look really closely?