When a flat Earther tells you that water cannot curve
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Nope, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do research into it, if you are keeping an open mind about the possibilities of what the shape would be. It seems by your actions that you suspect the earth is flat, if you choose not to devote time to research other shapes.
Exactly!
There is nothing to research if nothing about the "cube earth" exists to study...
As i said before, in order for the cube earth to be consistent with what we measure and observe - the known world would have to be on its topmost face. This is certainly not a possibility that we can or should completely rule out.
However, flatly transitioning from the spherical worldview merely juxtaposing/projecting the known world onto a cube would be nonsensical and against the laws of physics for the same reasons that the spherical earth is.
What actions? I have plainly told you that i work hard not to "suspect" anything (and excise such suspicions, aka beliefs), and to only deal with what i can know and thoroughly validate.
On a local level, the land and water are generally flat, but the earth is a LOT larger than that. Indeed, if we are wrong about the earth's shape - we could easily be quite wrong about its total size as well.
Exactly. That's why we don't research "the cube earth", or "the spherical earth", or "the flat earth". We just study "the earth" and its shape without such biases (ideally).
Just as suspicions about the world being flat could also be wrong, as well as our current understanding of weight only acting downward.
Precisely!
Correct, which is why suspicion, aka belief, must always be identified and excised if you wish to be even remotely capable of objective study (of anything).
That is more or less demonstrable - aka, a law. However weight doesn't act in any direction necessarily - it is just an intrinsic property of matter. Wether that weight is directed down, up, or neither is defined by its relationship to the media it displaces.
And that is precisely the reason we don't research the "cube earth". Looks like you have, and now understand, your answer.
Is it fair to say then that you simply believe that the world is not a globe?
In your own perspective, yes. But it's just a belief that it applies universally in all environments, unless you've been there.
Well, no, because I was asking about you, specifically. Not the royal you. I understand why "we" don't, but not why "you" don't.