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.
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.