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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Reasons for believing the Earth is round
« on: April 09, 2015, 05:35:12 PM »
How many flat Earthers have you spoken to?
you people are the first, but i feel that is somewhat irrelevent.I think you misinterpreted what i was asking. I was trying to ask if the aether was acting directly on us. I think I managed to get what you meant anyway. so you mean to say The aether is not acting on us; it is acting only on the earth, and the earth is blocking the aether so that we don't experience weightlessness?Imagine you're in a river, shielding yourself from the current with a big wooden plank. The current acts on the plank, which in turn acts on you.
Similarly here, the aetheric wind doesn't act on you directly because the Earth is in the way.
Thanks that makes sense.
I believe that the Earth blocks most, but not all, of this force from reaching us. A small amount permeates through the Earth and does act on us, but in a very subtle and almost imperceptible way. This is why things have a slightly different amount of weight at different locations across the plane.
That also makes sense. but that still doesn't explain the atraction between small objects observed in cavendish's experiment, and i've still not heard the original reason that suggests that aether exists.
Wulf's point above is valid - what is the original evidence for the aether / aetheric wind? It seems to be, as herewegoround is suggesting in his most recent post, that FE folks start from the presumption that the earth is flat (because hey, look our your window, it's pretty flat...), and then need to invent new natural processes for which we have no evidence to explain the original presumption....whereas, given the evidence from observations as we have them (and again, herewegoround laid them out a number of them pretty clearly at the beginning of this thread), everything seems to suggests that the earth is round.
Not to paint with a broad brush, but is it possible FE folks that maybe you are all just so committed to being contrarian - which, granted, is an important role in a free thinking society - that you're not really looking at the very clear and obvious truth? I mean, I just cannot see any way that you guys truly believe this stuff, so I keep coming back to the idea that this whole entire website must just be an attempt to mess with people...
Also, I'd love to hear a response to the Verrazzano bridge point!