Is earth actually flat?

Is earth actually flat?

Researchers took the measurements in 2003 and discovered that Kansas is in fact flatter than a pancake.

Of course, the Earth is round and not flat. Otherwise, travelers would constantly be falling off the edge. Right?Wrong. Living in the middle of the Earth might seem fairly normal if it were a flat disk, rather than a ball, like this plate, due to its weight, density, and thickness. On a disk Earth, however, gravity would slightly skew as you approached the edge, pulling you back toward the center at an ever-increasing angle. This fantastic simulation was created by my friend Nick from "yeti dynamics."

Check out how such increasingly diagonal gravity would operate even though the person and buildings are obviously not to scale. Although this disk is flat, a runner moving toward the edge would perceive it as if they were attempting to climb an ever-steeper hill. The building foundations in the background of the runner show how you would need to build structures closer and closer to the edge in order for the inhabitants to always feel as though down is at a right angle to the floor, just like we do on our large, spherical Earth. Things would become ominous as you got closer to the edge.

Even though the Earth is flat, it would appear to be a sheer drop off. What's really fascinating is that, in contrast to the fear of "don't fall off the edge," the terrifying risk on a flat world would be falling away from the edge and rolling all the way back to the center. Instead of dropping off into space once you crossed the threshold, you could unwind after doing so. It would be a pleasant, level area. Of course, this model ignores the fact that a planet with such a shape would not exist. Anything as large as the Earth, shaped like a flat disc, would inevitably deform back into a ball under the force of its own gravity.

Because of this, everything in outer space that is larger than a few hundred miles in diameter is spherical. As far as we know. What if gravity doesn't exist? What if science was mistaken all along and the Earth is actually flat? It's a myth that Christopher Columbus made the discovery that the Earth is spherical. Since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, who, for example, had observed that boats disappear bottom first when sailing away, virtually every scholar and major religion in the West had accepted Earth's rotundity. Additionally, stars appear and disappear from view as you move north and south. The idea that the Earth was flat until a few hundred years ago was probably first spread as a sort of insult during the modern era. The Earth was once thought to be flat by your people, so why should we believe you now? The smear was circulated and repeated so frequently that it was taken as historical fact. The term "Flat-Earther" came to mean "Anti-science".

Although it might appear flat over short distances, the Earth is actually quite curved. Due to the Earth's spherical shape, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Staten Island and Brooklyn, had to be built. Despite being perfectly vertical and separated by 1300 meters, the Earth's curvature causes its two towers to be 41 millimeters farther apart at the top than the bottom. More than 2000 years before rockets and space travel, Eratosthenes used the differences in pole shadows cast in Syene and Alexandria to calculate the circumference of the entire globular Earth with, for the time, impressive accuracy in the third century BC. After that, rumors spread that the Earth was shaped like a sphere.

However, Wilbur Glenn Voliva rose to prominence in 1906 as the leader of a slightly odd religious sect that effectively controlled Zion, Illinois. Voliva imposed the flat Earth doctrine in Zion schools because he thought the Earth was actually flat. That conviction was also imposed on pretty much everyone who entered the city.

Voliva thought that the sun was only a few thousand miles from Earth and that the Earth was flat. not 93,000,000. In addition, he thought the sun was only 32 miles across rather than 860 000. Or does he just sound insane? You see, if the sun were only a few thousand miles away and 32 miles across, the same phenomenon that Eratosthenes observed could be explained by a flat Earth.

Today's flat Earthers have continued Voliva's work thanks to the power of the Internet. Any proof that the Earth is round that you can throw at them, they have pretty good explanations for. Essentially, circumnavigation is just a flat circle path. A flat disc could also create the same rounded shadow that Earth makes on the Moon during a lunar eclipse. Remember how gravity would be entirely different on a disc-shaped planet? Well, that's what causes time zones. They contend that gravity as we currently understand it simply does not exist. Earth's flat disc is only speeding up at 9.8 meters per second.

All of the images and videos that show the Earth is round that we now have as a result of space exploration are entirely made up. A ruse committed by Big Globe. airlines, space agencies, and globe producers. They are benefiting from our uninformed belief that the Earth is spherical. Of course, they are aware that it is flat. They are keeping that fact from us. Is it just a coincidence that both the United Nations and the Flat Earth Society use projections of the Earth that are centered on the North Pole for their logos?

Are these individuals real? Maybe not the majority of them. But this is where Poe's Law falls flat.

An adage that claims it is difficult to tell the difference between sincere extremism and parody extremism at their extremes. Although clever, flat Earth theories are primarily ad hoc explanations—excuses conjured up on the spot that don't account for all the available evidence and only address one issue. Of course, science discards a theory when a more suitable one explains more of our observations, so why the selfish obsession with OUR observations? The same scientific method that we employ could be applied by a cosmic ray particle to determine that the Earth is, in fact, flat. You see, time slows down and lengths shorten at speeds that are close to the speed of light.

We can infer this, for example, from the fact that unstable muons, which are produced in the upper atmosphere when cosmic rays collide with it, should primarily degrade before reaching the planet's surface. However, due to their incredibly fast speed, we are able to detect many of them down here. the distance they must travel to the surface during their brief lives is, from their perspective, much, much shorter than it appears to us. This literally means that, from our perspective, their physics runs according to a slower clock. A cosmic ray proton traveling at 99.9999999999991% the speed of light would perceive Earth as having a thickness of only 17 meters in their direction of travel. Therefore, Earth is round to us but flat to them. Others see it as flat, while others think it has a ball shape. There doesn't seem to be a single best solution that applies to all situations.

Knowledge is compared to a crossword puzzle by Susan Haack.

Old and new solutions interact, strengthening one another.

The questions we ask provide the clues, and when the answers fit neatly into a predetermined grid, we know we're on the right track.

But that does not imply that the puzzle will one day be solved completely. Recall the 1996 US presidential election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, when The New York Times published its renowned crossword puzzle. The 39 across clue was quite bizarre. To properly respond, it seemed as though you would need to be able to predict the future. "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (blank) elected," it merely stated. Who knows until tomorrow which of the two candidates will fill in that blank, Clinton or Bob Dole? It is impossible to know. However, it turned out that Bob Dole or Clinton was the correct response. All the other clues fit, regardless of which you chose to write in. A "black Halloween animal" might be a cat or a bat, for example.

We may have similar knowledge of the outside world. a puzzle without an answer key, just the assurance that the solutions make sense as a whole, so they are probably accurate. Even so, there's always a chance that none of the clues will ultimately have a single, conclusive solution that will satisfy everyone. Playing the puzzle might go on forever. I agree with Richard Feynman on this. "Some say, 'How can you live without knowing?'" I am unsure of their meaning. I always live in ignorance, so that part is simple. What I want to know is how you found out. You realize?