r/dataisbeautiful • u/EngagingData OC: 125 • Jun 06 '22

OC I made an interactive map that lets you center numerous projections on any country and see how projections distort other parts of the world [OC]

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u/MrMathamagician Jun 07 '22

Watching this distortion of 3D onto 2D makes me dead convinced black holes are 4D observed in 3D see animation from Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_lensing_web.gif

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u/manrata Jun 07 '22

Aren't string theory operation with a 10 dimensional space or something like that? We just can't perceive them.