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Scientist X, who claimed the flat Earth theory was nonsense, clearly had not read the literature on the flat Earth theory. Scientist X was not trained in flat Earth theory, and therefore could not make an expert judgment. The criticisms made by scientist X were valid only against Rosencrantz' version of the flat Earth theory, long since outmoded.
On a flat Earth, the Sun's shadow would reach the upper atmosphere very quickly, except near the closest edge of Earth, and would always set at the same angle to the ground (which is not what is observed). The length of twilight would be very different on a flat Earth. On a round Earth, the atmosphere above the ground is lit for a while before ...
The claims of modern flat Earth proponents are not based on scientific knowledge and are contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus based on multiple confirming lines of evidence that Earth is roughly spherical. [3] Flat Earth beliefs are classified by experts in philosophy and physics as a form of science denial. [4]
Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth to a sphere. The concept of a spherical Earth gradually displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages .
Well, walking around on Earth's surface feels and looks flat, so more Americans are starting to deem all evidence to the contrary as lies purported by NASA. RELATED: Stunning photos of earth from ...
The Old Bedford River, photographed from the bridge at Welney, Norfolk (2008); the camera is looking downstream, south-west of the bridge. The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature ...
The Earth's radius is the distance from Earth's center to its surface, about 6,371 km (3,959 mi). While "radius" normally is a characteristic of perfect spheres, the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent, sufficiently close to treat it as a sphere in many contexts and justifying the term "the radius of the Earth".
A man who remains convinced that the Earth is flat intends to prove it once and for all, and an effort to that end will involve launching himself 1,800 feet through the sky and taking photos of ...