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What if the Earth was flat?



What if the Earth was flat?

What if the Earth was flat. Humans have known about the fact that the Earth is round for thousands of years, and they became sure of this fact when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 that orbited the Earth.

However, recently, a small group of people appeared on the Internet who insisted on denying this fact and called the Flat Earth Society, and it seems that they have planted doubt about the simplest aspect of this reality, and the owners of this theory have gone to great lengths to come up with alternative explanations for the reasons that make the world behave as if it were spherical when It is - as they claim - flat, although observations gathered by humans around the planet over thousands of years indicate that the Earth is spherical.

However, if the Earth were somehow really flat, it wouldn't move like the planet we know today, and humanity and everything else would perish. David Stevenson, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech in Pasadena), says: "For an astronomical object to form a disk - rather than a spherical one - it must be rotated at very high speeds, and this is what destroys the planet and tears it into small pieces."

The astronomer James Clark Maxwell mathematically explained that a solid, disk-like body is not a stable form in the universe in his work on the rings of Saturn, as his research predicted that they were formed from many small particles that are not interconnected with each other and it turned out to be right and explained the mathematics that Maxwell also worked on it why no planet-sized disks are floating around the galaxy.

We need magic to make the Earth flat without rotating at great speeds, and it will not last for long, as the forces of gravity will affect the planet in hours from all sides equally, and this explains the sphericity of the planets - or the semi-spherical shape as this depends on the speed of the planet's rotation, and these forces may act Centrifugal forces - against the forces of gravity, which causes flattening at the equator.
Thus Maxwell mathematically demonstrated that a stable disk Earth is not possible under conditions of gravity, and without gravity, everything would appear illogical. The atmosphere will disappear because it is linked to the Earth by gravity, and the tidal movement will also disappear because its motion is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon affecting the movement of the oceans.

As for the moon, it will disappear, because any explanation for its existence includes gravity. In the most acceptable scenario, the moon formed when a giant body collided with the Earth at the beginning of its formation, and the Earth picked up some of the body’s debris, and another scenario says that the moon was formed at the same time as the Earth - again thanks to gravity Or that the enormous gravity of the Earth attracts large chunks of space as it orbits through space.

Simple calculations:


Gravity is responsible for the structure of the Earth's layers, with the densest layers in the core of the Earth, the least dense in the mantle, and the least in the crust.

The planet would move differently without this layer structure. For example, the outer core of the core acts as a giant dynamic magnet, which generates the planet's magnetic field. This field protects the atmosphere from the solar wind, and for your information, Mars lost its atmosphere after its magnetic field disappeared four billion years ago.

Geophysicist James Davis at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York City told Live Science: “Plate tectonics - the movement of the plates that make up the planet's outer crust - will not work if the Earth is flat, and when doing simple calculations assuming that the planets are Flat discs, we will not find a correct answer that matches the observations we collect about the real world. ”

Flat Earth theorists create arguments to explain earlier observations of a flat planet. The problem, according to David, is that these explanations have no mathematical or physical basis. When Maxwell predicted that Saturn's rings consist of small particles in the 1850s, he demonstrated that through a general knowledge of how the gravitational and rotational forces work, and his article on this topic was mostly Mathematical equations, and the Flat Earth community doesn't work that way.

The Flat Earth community’s view of the world includes a selection of various interpretations of various phenomena.

The Earth and the Moon are spherical for the same reason - i.e., gravity - but the flat Earth community has to come up with two different interpretations of both, and often these two explanations contradict each other, and scientific theories do not work that way.

He also said: "If we can explain thousands of phenomena with one theory, that is better than explaining a thousand phenomena with a thousand theories."

Let's put all this aside, if the Earth were flat, this means that the millions of scientists who deny the idea of ​​a flat Earth and who have done so throughout history are involved in a cosmic conspiracy for reasons that cannot be understood.

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