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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Altitude related g... where are the experiments?
« on: April 29, 2023, 03:06:46 PM »In an airplane the altimeter’s function is to measure the distance above the surface of the earth along the route. On a spherical earth when you maintain a constant altitude between two points you do fly a curved flight path. You never notice that because the changes are so small relative to the forward distance you are traveling. It’s not unusual for your altimeter to bounce up and down by a couple hundred feet all along the way while the autopilot compensates to maintain a set altitude. A gyroscope, on the other hand, will always point at a fixed reference point in space. When it’s mounted in an aircraft you would see a constant change in the Z axis as you progress along your route. If you could set your autopilot to maintain a particular constant Z axis value, then you would see a continuous increase in altitude as you progressed along your route. If the earth was flat, then flying along a constant Z axis would also mean flying at a constant altitude over the earth’s surface. My measurements indicated a curved surface because of the consistent changes in the Z axis measurements in the direction of travel that were consistently reversed when the reverse journey was made back to the original point of departure. All I know is that this is what I witnessed over countless trips using many different gyros.Nope.You are certainly getting off the original subject but since you are the OP of this thread, I will supply you with an answer.
An airplane or a ship can show that they are transitioning along a curved path by using a gyroscope. I am personally familiar with this technology and had the manufacturers manuals and service equipment that provided me with finer and more detailed measurements than my eye could discern. Since the earth is also spinning on an axis you would have to take all the x, y and z measurements at a fixed time, like at noon (UTC) each day. When you did this after a trip halfway around the earth, as I have done countless times, you could see that you are now standing on your head relative to the way you were when you started your long journey.
Like Johannes Kepler said:
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world
should be to discover the rational order and harmony
which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed
to us in the language of mathematics.
Nope. Gravity is making the gyroscope do that, not them going along an imaginary curved path. It's your problem if you refuse to understand what gravity is and the reality of our Earth.
You claim that you care about physics and natural science but really what you care about is formal science and mathematical physics. Have a good whatever it is wherever you are on our level Earth.
Gyroscopes work on the principles of gyroscopic inertia. They will work fine whether there's gravity present or not. Mathematics shows this to be true.
Immanuel Kant said: In any particular theory there is only as much real science as there is mathematics.
Sorry, but were you saying that if the gyroscope tells you you're flying level, that means that you're flying along a curved path because you're assuming the Earth to be a globe and level means curved? If so, I have nothing else to say to you to put it mildly.