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Flat Earth Community / Re: Why do you believe in the FE?
« on: January 10, 2019, 07:45:51 PM »
In the past science has told us that everything is made up entirely of differing combinations of earth, wind and fire; that the Sun moves around the Earth, then later that the Earth moves around the sun, going by current understanding the Earth moves in a straight line, but space warps it's trajectory. It was accepted fact that an aether exists and it permeates through all things, that earth was gradually shrinking up like an apple. We've moved from a steady state universe to one that went off with a bang and will end in a whimper.
The point I'm getting at here is that while the scientific method is an incredible and infinitely useful tool for humanity, it's findings have been overridden based on new evidence or theories so many times now that it can't be used as a basis to establish unassailable facts and something that is correct to approach with scepticism.
Now lets consider that time isn't linear and neither is space. Things can exist is two states simultaneously and then change depending on if you're looking at it or not. There are sixteen dimensions (at least). We might be surrounded by an infinity of alternative universes, we might not be. Light behaves in ways I struggle to wrap my head around and fundamentally we're told that the very heart of physics are not governed by laws but by a string of uncaused causes. This is all true, but tomorrow it might not be. And I think science is only just scratching the surface.
With all the above in mind, you say the Earth we live on is round but only appears flat. Can you be certain that the Earth appears round but is actually flat?
As Totallackey says that is an unchanging factor in contrast to a an ever-changing and in the long term unreliable set of theories that we are presented with on an ongoing basis. I'm not claiming that my views are a 100% certainty, but it's also not something people should dismiss out of hand.
The point I'm getting at here is that while the scientific method is an incredible and infinitely useful tool for humanity, it's findings have been overridden based on new evidence or theories so many times now that it can't be used as a basis to establish unassailable facts and something that is correct to approach with scepticism.
Now lets consider that time isn't linear and neither is space. Things can exist is two states simultaneously and then change depending on if you're looking at it or not. There are sixteen dimensions (at least). We might be surrounded by an infinity of alternative universes, we might not be. Light behaves in ways I struggle to wrap my head around and fundamentally we're told that the very heart of physics are not governed by laws but by a string of uncaused causes. This is all true, but tomorrow it might not be. And I think science is only just scratching the surface.
With all the above in mind, you say the Earth we live on is round but only appears flat. Can you be certain that the Earth appears round but is actually flat?
Today, for instance...I looked out my window and the land surrounding me, other than hills and dales? Flat.
Yesterday? Same thing. Flat.
All my travels over land and water? Everywhere I go...aside from hills, mountains, valleys, and dales? Same thing. Flat.
As Totallackey says that is an unchanging factor in contrast to a an ever-changing and in the long term unreliable set of theories that we are presented with on an ongoing basis. I'm not claiming that my views are a 100% certainty, but it's also not something people should dismiss out of hand.