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  • Ah, I can see OP’s line of thought now:

    • you have a point A’ on a plane and a random point A
    • you find a midpoint B and draw a sphere around it. A and A’ are now a diameter of the sphere
    • pick two random points D and C at the intersection of the plane and the sphere
    • by the “triangle inscribed in a circle/sphere where one side is a diameter” rule, such a triangle must be a right triangle
    • therefore both angles ACA’ and ADA’ are right angles
    • thus C and D both satisfy the conditions of the initial question (with all points renamed: A=P, (C or D)=H, A’=A)
    • OP never defined what a projection is, it being “4th grade math”, but one of the requirements is being unique
    • C and D cannot both be the projection, therefore the initial question must be answered “false”: just because AH is perpendicular to PH doesn’t make H a projection.

    I like treating posts as puzzles, figuring out thread by thread WTF they are talking about. But dear OP, let me let you know, your picture and explanation of it are completely incomprehensible to everyone else xD. The picture is not an illustration to the question but a sketch of your search for a counterexample, with all points renamed of course, but also a sphere appearing out of nowhere (for you to invoke the inscribed-triangle-rule, also mentioned nowhere). Your headline question is a non-sequitur, jumping from talking about 4D (never to be mentioned again) into a ChatGPT experiment, into demanding more education in schools. You complain about geometry being hard but also simple. The math problem itself was not even your question, yet it distracted everyone else from whatever it is you were trying to ask. If you ever want to get useful answers from people other than crazed puzzleseekers like me, you’ll need to use better communication!