please explain sun geting larger at sunrise sunset and then disapearing/appearing from horizon ...actually forget it just googled myself and found this:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Magnification+of+the+Sun+at+Sunset
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=The+Setting+of+the+Sun
Inability to square sunrise and sunset with flat earth was the only thing that I could see wrong with flat earth theory. I'm not convinced of it, but don't have a basis to dismiss it either. Obviously most who do dismiss it do so because some authority told them so. Would research it if time wasn't a scarce resource or if there was some way to benefit by knowing the truth. Absent that it's fun to think about and test the brain a little here and there.
You don't need to be an expert to dismiss it.
I've read that forum and some if their ideas are:
- gravity doesn't exist, instead the planet is accelerating"upwards" at 9.8 m/sec squared.
that's ridiculous. Such acceleration would need huge amounts of energy after just a couple of days.
- the moon is inhabited by shrimp-like creatures that emit light.
. again, they can't be serious. Also, they can't explain moon phases with a flat earth hypothesis.
- they think there's a huge conspiracy and there are ice walls preventing things from falling down the edges.
. there's zero evidence for this. They are just speculating.
Science doesn't work like that, you can't just trust your senses and claim the earth is flat. Our current theories, although incomplete provide us the bases to,make accurate predictions. GPS systems use relativistic effects to make calculations (thanks Einstein), without it they would be off.
Someone please post a MIT old video about frames of references. Let's see if you trust your senses afer seeing it. It's on YouTube.