If the circumferential south pole is preventing the oceans from pouring over the edge of the flat Earth, why didn’t the oceans disappear during the incredible amount of time it would have taken for that ice to form?
They respond by saying the earth is a flat, infinite plane. No edge.
So how thick is the earth? Being infinite would imply the universe is bifurcated into half earth and half air/space/waters-above-the-dome.
They respond by saying the earth is a flat, infinite plane. No edge.
See, I love this idea. It’s at least creative and funny. But “infinite flat plane” is intriguing as a thought experiment. Think of all the lands we could conquer. How civilizations would grow and develop…
How would the gravity problem be solved? Assume “half land, half sky” (and ignore how masses behave under pressure) and you would have infinite mass pulling you in every (2D) direction at once, as well as straight down. Would that, then, “cancel out” and result in the “equivalence” of being pulled straight down to the (perfectly flat) ground? But then we have to address the behavior of masses under pressure (I’ve seen them say that Earth is “flat and hollow to get around this) and how an infinite plane Earth, even if it was only of a finite thickness, would still collapse into a singularity.
They respond by saying the earth is a flat, infinite plane. No edge.
So how thick is the earth? Being infinite would imply the universe is bifurcated into half earth and half air/space/waters-above-the-dome.
See, I love this idea. It’s at least creative and funny. But “infinite flat plane” is intriguing as a thought experiment. Think of all the lands we could conquer. How civilizations would grow and develop…
How would the gravity problem be solved? Assume “half land, half sky” (and ignore how masses behave under pressure) and you would have infinite mass pulling you in every (2D) direction at once, as well as straight down. Would that, then, “cancel out” and result in the “equivalence” of being pulled straight down to the (perfectly flat) ground? But then we have to address the behavior of masses under pressure (I’ve seen them say that Earth is “flat and hollow to get around this) and how an infinite plane Earth, even if it was only of a finite thickness, would still collapse into a singularity.