Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT
I understand refraction and diffraction, and refraction is the right one in this instance, but neither of these effects would explain why ships sink under all atmospheric conditions. And why can you observe them for longer from a height? The only situation that would cause an object that is on a straight line to appear lower than would be a convex lens with you not standing on the principle axis.
This would require there being a concave shaped pocket of higher density air between you and the boat. Possible to happen, but not all the time.
And your method of explaining the sinking ship should cut both ways, with ships appearing to float in the air while the sea curves up under different atmospheric conditions... or the sea appearing to flow upward into the land from the ship's point of view in the original setup.
And how does night and day work? A flashlight and a baseball accurately demonstrate the exact way our night/day cycle work, not to mention the seasons, and i would consider this a classic application of Occam's razor.
Finally, what are astronauts watching slowly rotate under them if the world is flat?
I realize I am not going to change any minds here, but I am fascinated that there are alternate hypotheses to these problems that are taken, frankly, as articles of faith by many people, and have been bourn out by everything I have ever learned in a long career of science classes.
I understand refraction and diffraction, and refraction is the right one in this instance, but neither of these effects would explain why ships sink under all atmospheric conditions. And why can you observe them for longer from a height? The only situation that would cause an object that is on a straight line to appear lower than would be a convex lens with you not standing on the principle axis.
This would require there being a concave shaped pocket of higher density air between you and the boat. Possible to happen, but not all the time.
And your method of explaining the sinking ship should cut both ways, with ships appearing to float in the air while the sea curves up under different atmospheric conditions... or the sea appearing to flow upward into the land from the ship's point of view in the original setup.
And how does night and day work? A flashlight and a baseball accurately demonstrate the exact way our night/day cycle work, not to mention the seasons, and i would consider this a classic application of Occam's razor.
Finally, what are astronauts watching slowly rotate under them if the world is flat?
I realize I am not going to change any minds here, but I am fascinated that there are alternate hypotheses to these problems that are taken, frankly, as articles of faith by many people, and have been bourn out by everything I have ever learned in a long career of science classes.
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