For those flat earthers that believe in Universal Acceleration, Special Relativity and consequently time dilation are essential. They explain how the the earth can keep accelerating at 9.81m/s^2 and yet never reach the speed of light.
https://wiki.tfes.org/Universal_Acceleration
I suspect your follow up questions will relate to gravity and you'll show me some awful hotch potch shoe horned thing like this ...
But scroll up from the image on that page and you'll see it is a misleading diagram.
https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/general_relativity_massive/index.html#Misleading
You may then be tempted to bring in the bending of light, but I'll give you fair warning on that one, bendy light is something that goes in FE's favour. I'll refer you to our resident bendy light expert 'Parsifal' for a better explanation of that one. In case you are wondering, Pete Svarrior is our resident bendy darkness expert, but that is advanced FE mechanics.
well, my question has nothing to do with any of the information posted, and i had my suspicions that FE believed in time dilation. As a side note, I (and any one else that has knowledge in physics) despises that illustration of the gravity and time-space curving. I brought this up in my Tides thread that has seem to have lost interest after my last series of unanswered questions.
Interesting again that you confuse basic physics terms...why would my follow up question relate to General Relativity when i specifically said FET didnt beleive that and my question was on General Relativity. Do you know the difference between these?
My question for the FE experts relates to the Hafele-Keating experiment conducted back in early 70s/late 60s if i recall correctly. They did an experiment to verify Einsteins prediction of time dilation using atomic clocks. One plane flew west around the world, the other flew east around the world. Both went around twice if i recall. The experiment was to compare the time difference of the clocks on those planes versus the control clocks left on the ground. both flew at the same height roughly so time change relative to gravitational potential is negligible. The plane travelling east had a greater overall velocity (travelling with rotation of the earth) compared to one going west.
The results of this test matched up nearly perfect as predicted by Einstein's calculations, within 2% of the expected result if i recall correctly.
now the ONLY way for that to happen is the world is rotating. if we were on a flat earth, the two should be the same relative time, they did not.
this experiment has been conducted again since then with even more precise clocks, once in the mid 1990s using multiple clocks and the difference from predicted by formulas was even closer.
what would be the FET explanation for this?