Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geometry" On the assumption that Dr. Einstein's propositions are true, a new, non-Euclidian system of space and spatial measurement is built upon them. In this Einsteinian system, no line is absolutely straight; projected, the ends of any line will ultimately meet, forming a circle whose circumference is estimated at 18 quintillions of miles. An arc of this circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose...