The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: Rama Set on September 25, 2014, 07:01:16 PM
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Has there been an experiment done recently that demonstrates the Earth is disc-like rather than a spheroid?
I would be interested in seeing a write-up of any such experiment so it could be thoroughly discussed.
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Has there been an experiment done recently that demonstrates the Earth is disc-like rather than a spheroid?
I would be interested in seeing a write-up of any such experiment so it could be thoroughly discussed.
I believe several people have performed modern Bedford experiments. Tom has, for example. It's made more difficult by Bedford Canal no longer existing. Tom actually has several experiments demonstrating planarity. There's also a wiki page about experimental evidence, although I will grant you that some of it is rather contrived.
That said, I don't see why you're specifying that experiments must be modern. The truth has no expiration date.
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Has there been an experiment done recently that demonstrates the Earth is disc-like rather than a spheroid?
I would be interested in seeing a write-up of any such experiment so it could be thoroughly discussed.
I believe several people have performed modern Bedford experiments. Tom has, for example. It's made more difficult by Bedford Canal no longer existing. Tom actually has several experiments demonstrating planarity. There's also a wiki page about experimental evidence, although I will grant you that some of it is rather contrived.
That said, I don't see why you're specifying that experiments must be modern. The truth has no expiration date.
Rowbotham's BLE and the successful Wallace experiment have been done to death, so I thought I would inquire about something I was not aware of. The experiments on the Wiki are terrible, to be frank.
Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
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Has there been an experiment done recently that demonstrates the Earth is disc-like rather than a spheroid?
I would be interested in seeing a write-up of any such experiment so it could be thoroughly discussed.
I believe several people have performed modern Bedford experiments. Tom has, for example. It's made more difficult by Bedford Canal no longer existing. Tom actually has several experiments demonstrating planarity. There's also a wiki page about experimental evidence, although I will grant you that some of it is rather contrived.
That said, I don't see why you're specifying that experiments must be modern. The truth has no expiration date.
Rowbotham's BLE and the successful Wallace experiment have been done to death, so I thought I would inquire about something I was not aware of. The experiments on the Wiki are terrible, to be frank.
I'll agree that some of them are. The Kansas pancake one, for example, I think is good for entertainment purposes only
Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
I'm... not entirely sure. I'd do a search of the old forum but I'm afraid of crashing it. You'd be better off talking to him about it.
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Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
I'm... not entirely sure. I'd do a search of the old forum but I'm afraid of crashing it. You'd be better off talking to him about it.
About the only "documentation" that I've ever been able to get out of Tom are reassurances that he's done it many times, in many locations and under a variety of conditions.
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Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
I'm... not entirely sure. I'd do a search of the old forum but I'm afraid of crashing it. You'd be better off talking to him about it.
About the only "documentation" that I've ever been able to get out of Tom are reassurances that he's done it many times, in many locations and under a variety of conditions.
I believe it. Tom is a trustworthy man and a true role model. If he claims something to be true I see no reason to doubt him.
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This confirms there have been no recent experiments to show a flat earth.
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I believe it. Tom is a trustworthy man and a true role model. If he claims something to be true I see no reason to doubt him.
Of course, the wiki entry is needlessly in the third person, and that alone diminishes its value.
Simple calculations demonstrate that Tom was dishonest in the original report. His claim that he lied on the beach at sea level with a reflector telescope and managed to hold an image steady by hand is unbelievable.
Now consider the Airy disk. Since light acts as a wave, diffraction would limit Tom's view as well. Indeed in the earth's atmosphere, the resolution angle would be limited to lambda/diameter, where lambda is the light's wavelength and diameter is the diameter of the aperture of the telescope. Let's go with lambda of 0.0000005 m, diameter of 0.1 m, and a distance of 37 km.
(http://i.imgur.com/dNTpJhB.png)
So the angle of the smallest object Tom could resolve with that very large telescope would be 0.00035o. At 37 km, the smallest object Tom could possibly identify with that very large telescope would be 13 m. His outlandish claim otherwise is, simply and entirely, a lie.
References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk2izv-c_ts and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk).
Excel work: (http://i.imgur.com/itF1oaU.png)
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Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
I'm... not entirely sure. I'd do a search of the old forum but I'm afraid of crashing it. You'd be better off talking to him about it.
About the only "documentation" that I've ever been able to get out of Tom are reassurances that he's done it many times, in many locations and under a variety of conditions.
I believe it. Tom is a trustworthy man and a true role model. If he claims something to be true I see no reason to doubt him.
Is there any documentation for Tom's experiment? Are you talking about the Monterey Bay case?
I'm... not entirely sure. I'd do a search of the old forum but I'm afraid of crashing it. You'd be better off talking to him about it.
About the only "documentation" that I've ever been able to get out of Tom are reassurances that he's done it many times, in many locations and under a variety of conditions.
I believe it. Tom is a trustworthy man and a true role model. If he claims something to be true I see no reason to doubt him.
Perhaps he was simply mistaken? Human's make these sorts of errors all the time which is why documentation is necessary.