I try not to believe at all, and to either know or recognize that i do not know. Belief is the enemy of knowledge, and to objective study of any kind.
If the earth is flat, it may not have an edge - or perhaps it does and cannot be reached. Many speculative possibilities exist.
Describe in your own words how the earth is shaped and what surrounds it?
Like everyone else, i lack the verifiable data to make such an assessment for the entirety of the world with certainty. Of course i can make more local/limited assessments, however.
It is not spherical the way we are taught, and required to believe - nor is it whizzing through "space" at unfathomable speeds. The spherical world we are taught would require fantastic amounts of, essentially limitless, energy in order to constantly fight against the demonstrable laws of nature.
Some say it is surrounded by water, above and below. "Space" writ large has its origins, unquestionably, in fiction and is also a physical impossibility due to those same demonstrable laws. Nequaquam vacuum.
No one has seen the entirety of the world with their eyes. It may not be possible (such as in your worldview), doubly so if it isn't finite.
It appears to us (locally, obviously) as a largely flat disc stretching out in all directions as far as the eyes can see (with topology, of course) - but in the words of obi wan, "Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them".
The same reasons you haven't.
Ditto.
So you believe that the flat earth has no edge?
Describe in your own words how the earth is shaped and what surrounds it?
I try not to believe at all, and to either know or recognize that i do not know. Belief is the enemy of knowledge, and to objective study of any kind.
If the earth is flat, it may not have an edge - or perhaps it does and cannot be reached. Many speculative possibilities exist.
Like everyone else, i lack the verifiable data to make such an assessment for the entirety of the world with certainty. Of course i can make more local/limited assessments, however.
It is not spherical the way we are taught, and required to believe - nor is it whizzing through "space" at unfathomable speeds. The spherical world we are taught would require fantastic amounts of, essentially limitless, energy in order to constantly fight against the demonstrable laws of nature.
Some say it is surrounded by water, above and below. "Space" writ large has its origins, unquestionably, in fiction and is also a physical impossibility due to those same demonstrable laws. Nequaquam vacuum.
Then how does it look like?
No one has seen the entirety of the world with their eyes. It may not be possible (such as in your worldview), doubly so if it isn't finite.
It appears to us (locally, obviously) as a largely flat disc stretching out in all directions as far as the eyes can see (with topology, of course) - but in the words of obi wan, "Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them".