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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Gravity through reason

« on: August 05, 2018, 04:21:02 PM »

And if you're going to use Special Relativity as an excuse, that means the Earth is travelling at 99.999999999etc.% the speed of light. How is it then also travelling at 9.8 m/s upward? That also makes no sense. By the logic of this hypothesis, you'd fall to the Earth at 99.recurring 9% the speed of light and ultimately be torn into atoms if you so much as fall over. That doesn't happen. All of this can be resolved by taking the widely-accepted alternative of gravity, but you can't do that since gravity itself would disprove Flat Earth.

Besides, why are you even disputing this, it can be avoided by admitting that the sentence 'the Earth is accelerating upwards at 9.8 m/s2' is wrong and should be 'the Earth is travelling upwards at 9.8 m/s'. It's still wrong but it at least makes sense.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Gravity through reason

« on: August 05, 2018, 03:34:15 PM »

If we go with the figure of 4.6 billion years, by now the Earth would be travelling at 1,422,587,396,160,000,000 m/s, or 1.4 quadrillion km/s, which is approximately 4.7 billion times faster than the speed of light. Can you see why it can't be accelerating at this speed?

I would suggest maybe brushing up on your Special Relativity before trying again.

In future, don't talk about things you know nothing about.

I would suggest you take your own advice.

Can you tell me how it's possible for the Earth to be accelerating at 9.8 m/s2 and yet keep travelling at 9.8 m/s then? If it's travelling at 9.8 m/s then it can't be accelerating. Make your mind up.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Gravity through reason

« on: August 05, 2018, 02:19:58 PM »

Or perhaps just "gravity", since FEs don't have a better model.

"This means the Earth is accelerating upwards at 9.8 m/s^2" You've just proved that you've never been to a physics class. If it was accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, that means it's velocity would be increasing by 9.8 m/s. So one second, it would be travelling at 9.8 m/s, then after another second it would be travelling at 19.6 m/s, and so forth. If we go with the creationist figure of the Earth being 6,000 years old, by now it would be travelling at a whopping 1,855,548,777,600 m/s, or 1.8 billion km/s, which is approximately 6,189 times the speed of light. If we go with the figure of 4.6 billion years, by now the Earth would be travelling at 1,422,587,396,160,000,000 m/s, or 1.4 quadrillion km/s, which is approximately 4.7 billion times faster than the speed of light. Can you see why it can't be accelerating at this speed?
Back to the point at hand, the correct sentence would be 'travelling upwards at 9.8 m/s'. Anybody who's been to a physics class and bothered to listen knows that. In future, don't talk about things you know nothing about.

Besides that, what evidence do you have that this is happening? What force is acting upon Earth to make it travel at this speed?