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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Water finding it's own level
« on: February 16, 2016, 12:44:25 AM »Regardless of individual perspective, isnt there a scientific way to measure the supposed curvature of a body of water? I know of bedford level experiment, but shouldnt the curvature be detected even on a microscopic scale? It would really settle things if someone could detect it, instead of arbitrarily saying "youre too small to tell, just trust us"
You can get precision levels that will measure the curvature over distances of a few meters. Taylor Hobson Talyvel comes to mind, Mahr differential levels are another. Most often used to calibrate precision granite surface plates or align machine tools to sub micron precision. Large precision machine tools sometimes need to take earth's curvature into account when setting up.
The curvature over a distance of 10 meters will be 8 microns. Levels like the Talyval 6 can easily measure down to that sort of accuracy.