X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-relativity-of-wrong-asimov.git/blobdiff_plain/7849a2094d18c776012b6ffc4ee453619a357f1d..refs/heads/master:/The_Relativity_of_Wrong.txt diff --git a/The_Relativity_of_Wrong.txt b/The_Relativity_of_Wrong.txt index 4f4dc9e..116d536 100644 --- a/The_Relativity_of_Wrong.txt +++ b/The_Relativity_of_Wrong.txt @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ kilometers (7,900 miles). The difference between the longest and shortest diameters is 44 kilometers (27 miles), and that means that the "oblateness" of the earth (its departure from true sphericity) is 44/12755, or -0.0034. This amounts to l/3 of 1 percent. +0.0034. This amounts to 1/3 of 1 percent. To put it another way, on a flat surface, curvature is 0 per mile everywhere. On the earth's spherical surface, curvature is 0.000126 @@ -281,3 +281,5 @@ measurements have been enormously refined but the principle remains. Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete. + +@footer@