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Edited by Krishnas Prophet:
8/16/2016 8:16:15 PM
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Offtopic, I deeply respect your faith
One day at dinner with my friends and gf I decided to tell them I was no longer following the round earth belief system.
I have heard people tell stories about when they decided to leave the family faith. But when I announced my denial of round earth belief literally everyone scoffed liked they thought I was joking, and then erupted when they realized I was not. My best friend got in my face: "How can you be so stupid? Seriously! This is how we see the world! Science is central to everything! What are you living for if you cant believe in science?!?" The dinner party quickly dissipated. My gf was the last to leave. She handed me back the ring I had given her just a week before and said something about not being able to share her life with someone who didn't acknowledged the truth... Its been a long time scince I talked to any of them. Some of them write science papers now, others have science degrees, all of them still meet weekly at the old favorite spots and discuss the latest "discoveries". I have moved on, as I knew I had to let them go.
So all that is to say: [u][i][b]I understand and respect your faith offtopic. [/b][/i][/u][u]I know letting go of the promises associated with what you believe is hard. [/u]When you first reject science you feel sort of lost: like how will all the predictions of a perfect tomorrow come true? How will lifespans increase, or space travel ever make it to the heavens? How will the earth be restored to perfection? To the pristine environmental, pre industrial conditions? And most of all, how can u tell the family? I still remember my dad reading me bed time stories out of an old leather bound book with one of those silk ribbons used to mark your place. It was an over-sized Britannica. He would hold my hand as I fell asleep and tell me to "[b]imagine the stars, millions of years old and that never sleep, all up in heaven watching over you[/b]." I always fell asleep happy.
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4 Replies[quote][quote]Hi everybody. As I'm sure everybody has been aware, recently Krishna (Spelling?) Prophet has been making some rather in depth posts about why the Earth must be flat. Among Prophet's claims was the idea of the Universal Accelerator, a counterproposal to gravity that conveniently explains why the sun and the moon and the second sun and the imaginary "shadow object" don't fall to the Earth. The Universal Accelerator basically claims that the Earth and all its celestial bodies are all moving upwards at the same rate, which explains why things fall. However, this simply can't be true. Gravity, on Earth, makes objects fall at an easily quantifiable rate, 9.8 m/sec/sec. This means that, every second, the object falls 9.8 m/sec faster than the second before. This INHERENTLY disproves the Universal Accelerator (we'll abbreviate it to UA from now on), and here's why. In a flat-Earth world, we would drop two balls off of a very large cliff. One ball, we'd drop 4 seconds after the second ball. Since the Earth is moving upwards while the balls are not, then it would appear that the balls are both falling to the ground. At the same rate. Since all of the Earth is moving upwards at the same rate it is only logical that the two balls would "fall" at the same rate. However, that isn't how it actually happens. Again, given the proper materials, you can go out and observe this yourself. In the real world (where the Earth is round), you go out to a very large cliff, and drop two balls, the second ball falling 4 seconds after the other. 5 seconds after the first ball started falling they will have very different speeds. The fist ball to drop will have been moving at a speed of 39.4 m/sec. The second ball will have been moving at a speed of 9.8 m/sec. This directly proves the UA wrong, because if you're not pushing any of the balls downwards, in the flat-Earth world, they should be falling at the same rate. However, they aren't. They're falling at very different rates, which means that the Universal Accelerator, and by extension the flat-Earth theory, are impossible.[/quote][/quote]
