| ▲ | gus_massa 6 hours ago | |
Let's go to to the normal infinite plane for a moment. You can use a map that is inside a circle with r=1. The objects get deformed, but points have a 1 to 1 correspondence. Lines that pass though 0 look straight, but other lines are curved. Measuring a distance is hard, you have to use some weird rules. If you draw a segment of length 0.001 segment in the circular map, it has almost the same length in the real infinite map. If you draw a segment of length 0.001 segment near the border of the circular map, it's a huge thing in the infinite map. Moreover, a line that pass thorough 0 has apparent length 2 in the map, but represent an infinite length in the plane Note that the border of the circle is outside the plane. --- The reverse happen if you have a map of the Earth. You can draw on the map with a pencil a long segment near the pole, but it represents a small curved segment in the Earth. --- Back to your question ,,, It's on the hyperbolic plane, not in the usual euclidean plane. So the map is only the top half, and the horizontal line = axis x is outside, it's the border. Length are weird, and a 0.001 segment draw with a pencil on the map far away from the x axis is small in the actual hyperbolic plane, but a 0.001 segment draw with a pencil on the map near the x axis is very long in the actual hyperbolic plane. The circles "touch" the x axis. In spite they look short when you draw them with a pencil, they part that is close to the x axis has a huge length in the hyperbolic plane. | ||