Good afternoon,
I didn't say the curvature of space-time I said the distortion. Who said its curved?
No lensing through the cockpit windows, especially the uncurved side cockpit windows.
I've had a look at the horizon through the one sat on my desk here and it doesn't cause any curvature and i can see a very long way today.
Perspective is not the cause.
Does the earth revolve around the sun still? your arguments suggest not. how do you explain the values garnered from stellar parallax?
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Lots of people say that spacetime is curved. Indeed, spherical earth physics rely pretty heavily on the idea that mass curves spacetime, and as you seem to be a round-earther it seemed a safe assumption that you were talking about curvature. If you were referring to something different then I misunderstood what you were referring to, but your snark is noted. What sort of distortion are you talking about, then? Educate me.
Re: aircraft windows. So lenses don't function if only one side is curved? Augustin-Jean Fresnel would like to have a word with you.
Thank you for your excellent efforts debunking the perspective argument by looking out your window by your desk. Unfortunately, unless your desk sits at such an elevation that you can see an uninterrupted horizon all around you, this explanation is worthless. It's the sense of being surrounded by the horizon that creates the illusion of curvature from perspective. I've had many round-earthers agree with me here, so I'm not sure why you're arguing.
Does the earth revolve around the sun? Certainly not. The sun circles above the earth, as does the moon. As for stellar parallax, the ancient Greeks surmised correctly that there isn't enough stellar parallax observed to show that the earth is moving. Some of the object in the heavens do exhibit cyclic motion, often with regular periods. Still others exhibit proper motion without a repeated cycle Presumably, some indicate terrestrial motion while others are explained away as astrometric binary systems or some such. All quite arbitrary. Any star who wobbles with a period of six months is evidence of terrestrial motion and labeled parallax, while others are simply objects that move on their own.