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Magnifying glass in hyperbolic space
Is it possible to deduce a model for hyperbolic geometry from a synthetic set of axioms a la Euclid/Hilbert/Tarski?Symbolic coordinates for a hyperbolic grid?Hyperbolic (and related) structures on open unit diskWhat is the volume of the sphere in hyperbolic space?Non-equivalent metrics on $PSL_2(mathbbR)$Is there a relationship between the Cantor set and hyperbolic geometry?Translation in Poincare disc modelProve that a loxodromic transformation has an attractor and a repeller as fixed pointsSpheres in hyperbolic spacesExplicit isomorphisms between the hyperbolic plane and surfaces of constant negative curvature
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My grandmother used to read with a magnifying glass. What (an ideal) magnifying glass does, is basically a homothety: it scales the picture by some factor. Now, in a hyperbolic space there is no such thing as homothety. So, what a person living in a hyperbolic space would do to improve poor vision?
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My grandmother used to read with a magnifying glass. What (an ideal) magnifying glass does, is basically a homothety: it scales the picture by some factor. Now, in a hyperbolic space there is no such thing as homothety. So, what a person living in a hyperbolic space would do to improve poor vision?
geometry hyperbolic-geometry
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My grandmother used to read with a magnifying glass. What (an ideal) magnifying glass does, is basically a homothety: it scales the picture by some factor. Now, in a hyperbolic space there is no such thing as homothety. So, what a person living in a hyperbolic space would do to improve poor vision?
geometry hyperbolic-geometry
asked 4 hours ago
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33428
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My grandmother used to read with a magnifying glass. What (an ideal) magnifying glass does, is basically a homothety: it scales the picture by some factor. Now, in a hyperbolic space there is no such thing as homothety. So, what a person living in a hyperbolic space would do to improve poor vision?
geometry hyperbolic-geometry
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What you say will still be true: a magnifying glass will still scale the picture by some factor. Let us say that the scale factor is $ell > 1$.
The difference will be that the scaled picture will no longer be a picture of the old familiar hyperbolic space in which the sectional curvature is $-1$. Instead, it will be a picture of hyperbolic space with curvature $-frac1ell^2$; I'm using here that the units of curvature are basically $1/text(length)^2$.
So, for example, a really powerful magnifying glass with scale factor $ell >!!> 1$ will present a picture of a hyperbolic space whose curvature is nearly zero, being pretty much indistinguishable from Euclidean space.
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Even though a magnifying glass appears to scale the plane picture you're looking at uniformly, the actual image that forms on your retina lives on (the inside of) a sphere. So that actual image cannot actually be scaled uniformly.
Really, our immediate visual sensations lives not in our 3D space, but in the space of directions emanating from our eye. And that space is a sphere no matter whether the eye itself is embedded in hyperbolic or Euclidean space. More precisely, a sphere in hyperbolic space is always isometric to a sphere in Euclidean space; they just embed differently.
So a hyperbolic creature's retina might well have the same intrinsic geometry as ours does, and so it is completely conceivable that his magnifying glass might transform his visual sensation in the same (imperfect) way that our magnifying glasses do for our eyes.
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What you say will still be true: a magnifying glass will still scale the picture by some factor. Let us say that the scale factor is $ell > 1$.
The difference will be that the scaled picture will no longer be a picture of the old familiar hyperbolic space in which the sectional curvature is $-1$. Instead, it will be a picture of hyperbolic space with curvature $-frac1ell^2$; I'm using here that the units of curvature are basically $1/text(length)^2$.
So, for example, a really powerful magnifying glass with scale factor $ell >!!> 1$ will present a picture of a hyperbolic space whose curvature is nearly zero, being pretty much indistinguishable from Euclidean space.
answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
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What you say will still be true: a magnifying glass will still scale the picture by some factor. Let us say that the scale factor is $ell > 1$.
The difference will be that the scaled picture will no longer be a picture of the old familiar hyperbolic space in which the sectional curvature is $-1$. Instead, it will be a picture of hyperbolic space with curvature $-frac1ell^2$; I'm using here that the units of curvature are basically $1/text(length)^2$.
So, for example, a really powerful magnifying glass with scale factor $ell >!!> 1$ will present a picture of a hyperbolic space whose curvature is nearly zero, being pretty much indistinguishable from Euclidean space.
answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
50.8k33787
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What you say will still be true: a magnifying glass will still scale the picture by some factor. Let us say that the scale factor is $ell > 1$.
The difference will be that the scaled picture will no longer be a picture of the old familiar hyperbolic space in which the sectional curvature is $-1$. Instead, it will be a picture of hyperbolic space with curvature $-frac1ell^2$; I'm using here that the units of curvature are basically $1/text(length)^2$.
So, for example, a really powerful magnifying glass with scale factor $ell >!!> 1$ will present a picture of a hyperbolic space whose curvature is nearly zero, being pretty much indistinguishable from Euclidean space.
answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
50.8k33787
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What you say will still be true: a magnifying glass will still scale the picture by some factor. Let us say that the scale factor is $ell > 1$.
The difference will be that the scaled picture will no longer be a picture of the old familiar hyperbolic space in which the sectional curvature is $-1$. Instead, it will be a picture of hyperbolic space with curvature $-frac1ell^2$; I'm using here that the units of curvature are basically $1/text(length)^2$.
So, for example, a really powerful magnifying glass with scale factor $ell >!!> 1$ will present a picture of a hyperbolic space whose curvature is nearly zero, being pretty much indistinguishable from Euclidean space.
answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
50.8k33787
answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
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answered 4 hours ago
Lee MosherLee Mosher
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Lee MosherLee Mosher
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Even though a magnifying glass appears to scale the plane picture you're looking at uniformly, the actual image that forms on your retina lives on (the inside of) a sphere. So that actual image cannot actually be scaled uniformly.
Really, our immediate visual sensations lives not in our 3D space, but in the space of directions emanating from our eye. And that space is a sphere no matter whether the eye itself is embedded in hyperbolic or Euclidean space. More precisely, a sphere in hyperbolic space is always isometric to a sphere in Euclidean space; they just embed differently.
So a hyperbolic creature's retina might well have the same intrinsic geometry as ours does, and so it is completely conceivable that his magnifying glass might transform his visual sensation in the same (imperfect) way that our magnifying glasses do for our eyes.
answered 26 mins ago
Henning MakholmHenning Makholm
242k17308550
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$begingroup$
Even though a magnifying glass appears to scale the plane picture you're looking at uniformly, the actual image that forms on your retina lives on (the inside of) a sphere. So that actual image cannot actually be scaled uniformly.
Really, our immediate visual sensations lives not in our 3D space, but in the space of directions emanating from our eye. And that space is a sphere no matter whether the eye itself is embedded in hyperbolic or Euclidean space. More precisely, a sphere in hyperbolic space is always isometric to a sphere in Euclidean space; they just embed differently.
So a hyperbolic creature's retina might well have the same intrinsic geometry as ours does, and so it is completely conceivable that his magnifying glass might transform his visual sensation in the same (imperfect) way that our magnifying glasses do for our eyes.
answered 26 mins ago
Henning MakholmHenning Makholm
242k17308550
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$begingroup$
Even though a magnifying glass appears to scale the plane picture you're looking at uniformly, the actual image that forms on your retina lives on (the inside of) a sphere. So that actual image cannot actually be scaled uniformly.
Really, our immediate visual sensations lives not in our 3D space, but in the space of directions emanating from our eye. And that space is a sphere no matter whether the eye itself is embedded in hyperbolic or Euclidean space. More precisely, a sphere in hyperbolic space is always isometric to a sphere in Euclidean space; they just embed differently.
So a hyperbolic creature's retina might well have the same intrinsic geometry as ours does, and so it is completely conceivable that his magnifying glass might transform his visual sensation in the same (imperfect) way that our magnifying glasses do for our eyes.
answered 26 mins ago
Henning MakholmHenning Makholm
242k17308550
$endgroup$
Even though a magnifying glass appears to scale the plane picture you're looking at uniformly, the actual image that forms on your retina lives on (the inside of) a sphere. So that actual image cannot actually be scaled uniformly.
Really, our immediate visual sensations lives not in our 3D space, but in the space of directions emanating from our eye. And that space is a sphere no matter whether the eye itself is embedded in hyperbolic or Euclidean space. More precisely, a sphere in hyperbolic space is always isometric to a sphere in Euclidean space; they just embed differently.
So a hyperbolic creature's retina might well have the same intrinsic geometry as ours does, and so it is completely conceivable that his magnifying glass might transform his visual sensation in the same (imperfect) way that our magnifying glasses do for our eyes.
answered 26 mins ago
Henning MakholmHenning Makholm
242k17308550
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Henning MakholmHenning Makholm
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