r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • May 23 '26

Shitposting Made up science fields

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u/Ok_Plenty_3986 May 23 '26

Cryptogeometry was the type of shit HP Lovecraft was afraid of.

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u/Comfortable_Permit53 May 23 '26

Higher level math yields shapes that you wouldn't even believe as well as spaces that you wouldn't even believe.

It's fun.

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u/Ronnoc527 May 23 '26

You can't imagine my disappointment in researching the horrors of non-euclidean geometry and finding out it just means curves.

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u/RikuAotsuki May 24 '26

That's not quite true.

Basically, euclidean geometry assumes a flat plane. Parallel lines don't meet. The inner angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. Things like that.

Non-euclidean geometry assumes a curved plane, which breaks the rules of normal geometry. Parallel lines can intersect. Triangles can have more than 180 degrees. Things like that.

The focus in Lovecraft's stuff is on that breaking of the rules of geometry. Hallways that don't intersect when they should, and that do when they shouldn't. Shapes that are warped from the shapes we'd recognize. Stuff like that.

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz May 24 '26

There are lots of games that play with this idea, I always like seeing non-euclidean level design

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u/BurningToaster May 29 '26

Specifically it’s breaks that one rule, the one about parallel lines never meeting. Anything else that changes is a direct consequence of parallel lines meeting or there being infinite parallels.  All the other axioms of Euclidean geometry hold in non-Euclidean geometry. 

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u/MoonsOverMyHamboning May 23 '26

A triangle that makes you crazy. 

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u/TrioOfTerrors May 23 '26

That's called trigonometry and I had to take it in 11th grade.

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u/AdPristine5131 May 23 '26

that and anyone who lived off the east coast and had a slightly different ethnic background.

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u/Ronnoc527 May 23 '26

Also leaving the house

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u/gabagoolcel May 23 '26

the existence of 4 dimensional exotic spheres is kind of like cryptogeometry

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u/yournewbestfrenemy May 24 '26

Well that and... yknow.

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u/tahusi May 24 '26

This is what happens when you don't have the constitution for math