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The conservation law of right angles
Why does this exist?
The ancestor of every distance formula. GPS, game physics and vector lengths all descend from it.
Part of the Journey of Space — Where is it, what shape is it, which way does it point?
🔬 This lab is being built
When it opens, it will follow the same flow as every MathIsland lab:
- 1An opening question — the problem this concept solves
- 2Why it was needed — where the old tools failed
- 3Hands-on experiment — sliders, simulations, direct play
- 4Common misconceptions, broken
- 5The idea, written as mathematics
- 6Where you meet it in real life
- 7Connections to the previous and next concepts