{"id":10364,"date":"2011-11-22T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2011-11-22T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:00:14","slug":"of-if-this-paper-has-one-side-and-whether-pigs-have-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10364","title":{"rendered":"\u2026 of if this Paper Has One Side, and Whether Pigs Have Wings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galileospendulum.org\/2011\/11\/21\/of-mobius-strips-and-the-shape-of-things\/\">Of Mobius Strips and the Shape of Things<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[E]ven though Earth is (roughly) spherical, the directions you travel can be broken down into two directions: North-South (longitude lines) and East-West (latitude lines). However, there are two places where the latitude-longitude coordinate system breaks down: the North and South Poles, where a single latitude corresponds to all the longitudes simultaneously. In fact, no coordinate system can describe the surface of a sphere without a breakdown at at least one point! It\u2019s not for lack of trying, it\u2019s just a mathematical fact. (There are coordinate systems that break down at only one point, but they\u2019re less useful for cartography.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arguments about M\u00f6bius are always so one-sided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Mobius Strips and the Shape of Things [E]ven though Earth is (roughly) spherical, the directions you travel can be broken down into two directions: North-South (longitude lines) and East-West (latitude lines). However, there are two places where the latitude-longitude &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}