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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Sunset appears differently on the earth, depending of your distance from equator
« on: June 08, 2018, 02:30:36 AM »
How is there supposed to be a debate if there is nothing to prove wrong?
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First off, before we entertain this further, why should we assume that this Flat Earth Monopole model that our society rejected over 100 years ago in favor of a Bi-Polar model, is true?
Where is your evidence for this Flat Earth model you are proposing?
You are missing the fact that the sun travels North-South over the course of the year.
whoever wrote that wiki article has a very poor understanding of physics, including einstein's general relativity and special relativity.
one thing the do have correct in that UA article is that if a "flat" earth was being accellerated at 9.8 m/s2 we would not feel any difference at all. so that part is correct. of course UA would not account for the fact that we can measure different accelleration/gravity at different elevations. this is a fact and easily verified. if the entire earth was being accelerated, then it would be constant at all elevations.
the other major flaw with UA is their explanation on why we would never reach the speed of light. first, again correct that an object of mass cannot reach the speed of light (C). but the reason given is way off. the issue with accellerating and object with mass is that as you increase velocity the mass increases, and by multiplying its resting mass by the lorenz transformation. the closer you get to C, the faster this occurs. An object accellerated to C would have an infinite mass, which obviously isnt possible
The other factor needed to accellerate a mass if force, i.e. F=ma. as the mass increases you need more force to continue accelleration. and since the mass is increasing as you get closer to speed to be infinite (as noted above) you would also require an infinite amount of force. again impossible