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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, brian whatcott wrote:Yes of course. The very same experimental process (in principle) which
His [Gauss'] attempt to measure whether real space had positive
curvature using
three lamps on mountain tops to form a triangle was also a marvel of
audacious physics.
More tantalizing still (for a person who has not previously
examined the proposal) is the suggestion that spatial distortion
might be probed with three spatial co ordinates. The backfile offers
only the milking stool, adapted to providing a plane mapping to three
spatial points limited only with minimal constraints of which
space-time curvature was not thought (by me) to be one.
They measured three interior angles, the sum of which is 180 degrees iff
space is Euclidean. Crawford