Water finds its own level.View attachment 174805 View attachment 174806 so why don't all rivers run towards the north pole?![]()
Water finds its own level.
Yup and level is not the same thing as flat. Flatness is independent of any local physical field; it's a geometric description. Level is an intrinsically physical measurement ; it's a description entirely dependent on local gravitational field strength.
You - like every flat disciple does - are making the mistake of trying to argue about geometric and physical principles that you don't have a sound understanding of, and because of that you're tripping over vocabulary that you don't really know the definition of.
Level on either a disc or a sphere is not a constant gradient field. On a sphere, observation matches prediction perfectly. On a disc, it doesn't. The model you're trying to deceive us all with predicts that the further south we go, the more we lean over, so that people and structures in Australia naturally stand almost vertical with respect to the earth's surface, and a dropped ball always falls due north. Obviously false.
Your bullet-proof argument just got hit with a bomb, dude.
good post, the dropping of a ball is interesting, If a person standing directly on the South Pole dropped a ball, to the person it would appear by observation to be of a downward motion, but the person can't percieve they are actually standing upside down because Gravity is pulling/holding them down on earth.
If a person could actually witness that from a distance from earth and see the person at the South Pole drop a ball it would look kind of abnormal to see a upside down person drop a ball and that ball would look to be moving up to the earth because of gravity.
A whole new level of stupid.
Before someone tries to "educate" others concerning geologic models,
you'd think they'd educate themselves concerning basic physics.
Aye, and if the earth were a disc, anywhere you stood other than the north pole, if you drop a ball it would take off sideways. The further south you are, the more sideways, so that if you were at the south pole it would 'fall' almost completely horizontal!
So ppl who would rather believe in flat earth than facts, if they reach this level of comprehension, start saying there's no such thing as gravity; it's all buoyancy...
...which is hilarious, because buoyancy is by definition a derived property of mass being affected by.. Guess what?
Gravity.
That's the whole 'don't actually have a clue what the words they are using mean' thing again.
Would it move sideways, I guess that would be dependent on where the source of gravity is, if it is under a flat earth I'd assumed everything would fall south, if the gravity force is pulling from the side I'd assume then yes it would pull to the side.
as far as anyone knows, the source of gravity is mass - or something intrinsic to mass, at a more fundamental level.
the vector of gravitational forces always points toward the center of mass; on a disc, the center of mass is the center of the disc. on pancake-planet, the center of mass would be at the north pole, midway through whatever the thickness is, which flat-disciples say is negligible ((otherwise they'd be saying the earth is a cylinder)).