Nature

[Khandro]

Coleridge thought that everything that is meant by 'nature' - wind, sea, light, darkness, natural shapes etc. - is a form of God's language to us.
Would you agree?

[TonyV]

this is how your triangle will look like

https://www.google.com/search?q=isosceles+triangle&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB776GB776&oq=isolelese&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.10224j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Atheist]

Tony, not quite. Each triangle will have two equal sides (i.e. two adjacent sides the length of the squares side) and a third side equal to the square's diagonal. The two equal sides will be separated by a right angle.

[TonyV]

Atheist no they are not, see my post for correct explanation.

[TonyV]

atheist you are talking about right angled triangles not isosceles.

[Atheist]

In this case, the two triangles are both isosceles (having two equal sides) and right-angled. I don't think there's any contradiction.

[TonyV]

athiest I give up just accept they fact that their are no 90 degree angles in a isololese triangle.

[Khandro]

I was wrong at 9:37 to say a 3,4,5 Pythagorean was isosceles & I said sorry, but I'm right to refer to a 'right isosceles triangle' as being half of a square cut diagonally, it has one angle of 90 degrees & two of 45 like the geometry set square.

[Atheist]

Tony, we're off topic. But... each triangle will have two equal sides and two equal angles, which complies with Wolfram Mathworld. Each triangle will also have a right angle between the two equal sides. If I'm having an off-day and have missed something I'd be grateful if you could point out my error.

[Atheist]

I think K agrees with me on this detailed point, if not on my view that there is no lawgiver behind all this.

[andy-hughes]

No I would not agree, but I guess you would hardly expect me to!

[naomi24]

If you lot are getting your knickers in a knot over simple triangles, God doesn't seem to be communicating very effectively. ;o)

[andy-hughes]

I think God has got form in that area naomi - every communication supposedly from him comes as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

[Old_Geezer]

But does it work in curved space ?
Unsure how the triangles cast doubt on the separation of maths and mind anyway.

[Atheist]

K posed a question relating to a square, which is in flat space.

[Khandro]

I don't suppose anyone will watch this, but one never knows;

[Bazile]

Crikey what's with this profound stuff this time on a Saturday morning

Haven't you lot got a pint waiting down your local to tickle your taste buds ?

Afterall the sun is over the yardarm

[douglas9401]

The application of triangles in Curved Air is rare to the point of vanishing.

[vascop]

@TonyV - YOU are the one who is wrong, of course there are isosceles triangles which are also right-angled - just draw the diagonal of a square and you get two immediately.