Circles/Squares

[QuantumPhysics]

IS there such a thing as a circle? Every measurement would need to be perfect and the same with a sqaure. IS there?

[tovaris]

Yes, in mathematical theory. But in real life one cant draw a true geometrical object

[Jess]

In theory, yes there is.

[QuantumPhysics]

Yeh tht is really true

[Elysium]

As the others have said, such things only exist in theory. The concept of perfection itself only exists in theory, if you want to get philosophical.

[sqishy]

Perfect circles and squares are products of your imagination and probably can't really exist in the outside world. For example, you could try the best to make a circular disk of sodium chloride/salt, but find that, at the atomic scales, the sodium and chlorine atoms are bonded in a square pattern and so the edges of the disk would be sort of 'atom pixellated' like with how the pixels of your computer screen create good approximations of circles.
As of if you can create perfect squares from cubic crystals such as salt, probably not, because the atoms are always vibrating a bit due to thermal energy.
And if you think a perfect circle can be created by taking a circumference of a spherical atom, can't happen either. Those science textbooks just show atoms and subatomic particles as spheres for visual clarity. There is nowhere where they begin or end, merely a roughly spherical high probability cloud of where you'll be most likely to find the atom/subatomic particle. And why are those probability clouds not perfectly spherical? Because each probability cloud gets affected by other probability clouds, as in where two probability clouds of two electrons will slightly warp away from each other, due to them having the same charge and therefore repelling each other away.

Hope this helps.

[Cygnus]

You can make a perfect circle or square on a computer, so yes there are circles and squares but you are unable to draw a perfect one in life.

[Human]

Yeah I guess they can exist, but they probably don't

[zac zohla]

the problem with circles is that material perfection is physically impossible. yes, true circles exist, but only in ones mind, nowhere else.

You can make a perfect circle or square on a computer, so yes there are circles and squares but you are unable to draw a perfect one in life.

not perfect. they only look perfect. if you look at the dialed pixels, it is still just a series of thousands of laterals.


-merged double post. -Emerald Dream