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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Experiment proposal
« on: January 24, 2021, 06:44:24 PM »
The LIGO website states that they took into consideration a spherical earth during the construction of the beam tubes. That would require a level foundation. I would define such a foundation as one with a surface being an equal distance from the center of the spherical earth in all locations on the foundation path. Once the foundation was constructed, beam tube mounts could then be installed. These mounts would have to be a series of ever longer mounts. The longest would be at the ends of the beam tube and the shortest ones would be at the center. This would mean that the points along the beam tube would have different distances to the center of the earth. Just visualize a circle with a tangent line drawn on it, if you can. If the earth were flat then the different mount lengths would have to bend the beam tube upwards because the mounts of different lengths with the longest at the ends. I have no indications that the actual beam tube was constructed as claimed on their website. Perhaps a trip to the site could confirm that. I'm assuming that the designers were confident enough that the earth was spherical before starting the design. I have personally confirmed that the earth is a sphere and I'm confident that many others have done so as well. Probably the designers of LIGO were plenty confident of their 'assumptions' before finalizing the plans. The data that is coming from the site seems to imply that the beam tube is working as designed.
You could make the argument that the upward bending of the beam tube on a flat earth would work fine as well because EA bends the light beam upwards, but by how much? Your Wiki equation give no indication because of the lack of the quantity of the Bishop constant. I believe that the value of the Bishop constant should be zero. Then the observed results would fit the equation. The results of the Bedford Canal experiment would be in conflict here as well. The flat earth theory needs more work and the Wiki needs to be updated with more information.
You could make the argument that the upward bending of the beam tube on a flat earth would work fine as well because EA bends the light beam upwards, but by how much? Your Wiki equation give no indication because of the lack of the quantity of the Bishop constant. I believe that the value of the Bishop constant should be zero. Then the observed results would fit the equation. The results of the Bedford Canal experiment would be in conflict here as well. The flat earth theory needs more work and the Wiki needs to be updated with more information.