WHAT!!!!!!????? Flat Earth Society (Crap title edited)

[daz]

If you've ever been on concorde, you can see the curvature of the earth.

 

[delta555]

But light waves would still require a medium for transmission, and the actual purpose of the experiment was to determine the existence of that medium.

WRONG

light is not really a wave, but a series of photons. Since this is the backbone of their argument for why Earth is the center of the universe, they are wrong.

The photons do not require a medium to go through.

 

[daz]

WRONG

light is not really a wave, but a series of photons. Since this is the backbone of their argument for why Earth is the center of the universe, they are wrong.

Dude... Wave-particle duality? A photon is a particle and a wave, depending on what you want it to appear as by the experiment you perform to look at it.

 

[delta555]

Using the "round Earth" theory, setting an object on the earth would be like setting grains of sand on a beach ball. Certainly a few grains would stay - right around the top, the surface is nearly horizontal - but when you stray too far from the absolute top of the ball, the grains of sand start sliding off and falling onto the ground. The Earth, if round, should behave in exactly the same fashion. Because the top is a very localized region on a sphere, if the Earth were in fact round, there would be only a very small area of land that would be at all inhabitable. Stray to the outside fringes of the "safe zone", and you start walking at a tilt. The further out you go, the more you slant, until your very survival is determined by the tread on your boots. Reach a certain point, and you slide off the face of the planet entirely. Obviously, something is wrong.

Yes, something is wrong

YOUR PHYSICS

We are not being attracted to the opposite side of the globe, but to the centre. So, wherever you are on the surface of the globe, you are being attracted 'downwards' toward the centre. This explains why people do not just 'fall off' the earth since it is spherical.


It really annoys me when people use incorrect physics to support an obviously flawed argument.

 

[daz]

I'm pretty sure the website is a joke, by the way.

 

[delta555]

Dude... Wave-particle duality? A photon is a particle and a wave, depending on what you want it to appear as by the experiment you perform to look at it.

yeah, so since it can be a photon, it can travel in a vacuum.

And yes, i do know about duality, but didnt mention it as i didnt think it was very relevant.

 

[delta555]

Your dog has joined us.

i think from this, it kind of shows that it is a joke.

Hadnt read this before i ranted.

 

[daz]

yeah, so since it can be a photon, it can travel in a vacuum.

And yes, i do know about duality, but didnt mention it as i didnt think it was very relevant.

I was just commenting on the way you wrong WRONG in big capitals, that's all.

 

[Dave M]

The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.

I dunno, but I sense they're not completely serious.