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Flat Earth Theory / For the love of all that is holy, read this.
« on: July 03, 2017, 08:46:20 AM »
Read the entirety of this post before arguing your point, and read the links too.
I have spent some time reading up on the "flat earth theory", and I have found subscribers to this theory have a critical misunderstanding of how gravity works. Now to be fair most people don't really understand how gravity works, I'll do my best to explain it.
Space and time are essentially the same thing, woven together it's known as space-time. Now imagine space time is a surface of a trampoline, if you set a bowling ball in the middle of it it will create a divit, and if you place another object they will roll towards each other, much like how gravity functions only gravity works on all planes, not just two demintonal like this example.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/zoom-grav.html
Next, the orbit of the earth. Orbits work because the object is in a constant state of free fall, the gravitational force of the sun is pulling the earth towards it, however the earth is also missing the impact because it is always moving in a sideways direction at the same time. The force of gravity easily overpowers any entropy caused by small particles in space. The earth is essentially in a perminate state of free fall towards the sun however because of momentum in a sideways direction will always miss and this keeps us an average of 93 million miles from the sun at all times.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-causes-an-orbit.html
Maps of earth: There is no mathematical way to project a flat map of earth, so those who are trying to use maps to prove the earth is flat is just wrong.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/why-is-an-accurate-global-map-hard-to-make.141647/
If anyone wants to argue any other points I would be happy to enlighten you, but first I have an experiment for you. Do this and it will 100% prove one way or the other who is right:
1) Buy a very very large balloon
2) fill it with helium
3) attach a digital camera and a GPS so you can find it later, or put it on a very very long string.
4) let it go, when it comes back down look at the footage. If you don't want to do this yourself here is a link from someone who did, and before you call BS I expect to see footage of your own.
I have spent some time reading up on the "flat earth theory", and I have found subscribers to this theory have a critical misunderstanding of how gravity works. Now to be fair most people don't really understand how gravity works, I'll do my best to explain it.
Space and time are essentially the same thing, woven together it's known as space-time. Now imagine space time is a surface of a trampoline, if you set a bowling ball in the middle of it it will create a divit, and if you place another object they will roll towards each other, much like how gravity functions only gravity works on all planes, not just two demintonal like this example.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/zoom-grav.html
Next, the orbit of the earth. Orbits work because the object is in a constant state of free fall, the gravitational force of the sun is pulling the earth towards it, however the earth is also missing the impact because it is always moving in a sideways direction at the same time. The force of gravity easily overpowers any entropy caused by small particles in space. The earth is essentially in a perminate state of free fall towards the sun however because of momentum in a sideways direction will always miss and this keeps us an average of 93 million miles from the sun at all times.
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-causes-an-orbit.html
Maps of earth: There is no mathematical way to project a flat map of earth, so those who are trying to use maps to prove the earth is flat is just wrong.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/why-is-an-accurate-global-map-hard-to-make.141647/
If anyone wants to argue any other points I would be happy to enlighten you, but first I have an experiment for you. Do this and it will 100% prove one way or the other who is right:
1) Buy a very very large balloon
2) fill it with helium
3) attach a digital camera and a GPS so you can find it later, or put it on a very very long string.
4) let it go, when it comes back down look at the footage. If you don't want to do this yourself here is a link from someone who did, and before you call BS I expect to see footage of your own.