is that longitudinal lines are always perpendicular to the equator Which is why they appear parallel at least when they're very close then since they meet at the top you have a triangle whose angles are still up for debate So we found that geometry and spaces that ar Benefits of oat milk en't flat or non Euclidean geometry outside and started walking perfectly straight right now in any direction Assuming an ideal sphere you'd be walking along some great circle of the earth These are also what we see for flight paths planes are traveling along geodesics If you want to fly from New York to Madrid You would not fly along the latitude line as that's part of a small circle Which is not a geodesic and therefore not the shortest path You'd instead take a slightly different path, which is part of a great circle But on a cylinder for example a geodesic looks more like a spiral in fact I know this is a geodesic because if you were to unroll a cylinder back to a flat plane The geodesic should remain the shortest path aka a straight line But to relate this back to the universe you first need to know that light Naturally travels the