Be careful with things like "faithfully reflect reality". :-)
Euclidean geometry is intuitively good and seems to work on relatively small areas of the Earth's surface, but non-Euclidean geometries are inconsistent with it and more faithfully reflect a reality that lacks infinite flat planes.
Euclidean geometry is intuitively good and seems to work on relatively small areas of the Earth's surface, but non-Euclidean geometries are inconsistent with it and more faithfully reflect a reality that lacks infinite flat planes.