Zetetic Astronomy
Zetetic Astronomy
This article is
about cosmologies
in which Earth is
or was held to be
flat. The flat earth
model is an
archaic conception
of Earth’s shape as
a plane or disk.
Many ancient
cultures subscribed
to a flat Earth
cosmography,
including Greece
until the Classical
Period, the Bronze
Age and Iron Age
civilizations of the
Near East until the
Hellenistic Period,
India until the
Gupta Period
(early centuries
AD), and china
until the 17th
century.
-Wikipedia.
What Comes Into Your Mind When You Come Across the Word Flat-Earth?
Let me guess:
At first, you’re probably like, “ooh, that same old stupid notion,” or “that conspiracy theory
doing rounds on the internet,” or “are there any real people who actually believe the earth is
flat?” or “is that a joke?” or “come on, we’re in the f*ckn 22nd Century, duuh!” or “you must be
some kind of uneducated, jobless, attention seeking moron,” or “this flatards will kill me with
their non-sense some-day.”
Whatever comes to your mind at first is usually far from positive. I personally, being a flat
earther, can relate. How stupid the idea of a flat earth sounds hits you first, and then the
imagination kicks in (usually the hilarious kind of imagination).
It probably reminds you of those ancient goat-herders who did not have the technology required
for carrying out extensive research as far as the shape of the earth is concerned, you know, “the
dark ages.” (Probably makes you feel way smarter existing in the 21st Century, you know, with
all the technology around you, right?)
Probably you imagine of a flat earth floating in the vacuum of space. You know, based on your
institutionalized education ideas.
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Or it probably reminds you of those Terry Pratchett’s commercially successful series of
“Discworld” novels that take place on a flat earth balanced on the backs of four elephants
standing on a giant turtle swimming through space. (Funny, right? ☻).
Ooh! I almost forgot the flat earth edge. You’re probably thinking of that too. You know, where
ships sail off the edge, and the water fall off into the vacuum of space. Quite scary, right? ☻.
And the old adage that goes like, “we could have found the edge by now.” Funny too, right? ☻.
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Probably you’re also imagining of those hilarious lunar eclipses that could form if the earth was
a disc on the back of a turtle, right? ☻.
I’m a good guesser, right? Starting things off low-key, from hilarious AF >hilarious >funny
>not-so-funny >I mean business. It is to be later noted that, non-of the aforementioned
assumptions are even remotely related to flat earth, but still wouldn’t go unmentioned. Having
briefly covered most of what pops up in a globe earth believer’s mind when first encountered
with flat earth, it’s time to move on to other things. The next stage involves demanding answers
for most physical phenomena that one believes/assumes “can only be answered based on the
globe earth model and the globe earth model alone.” So let’s get to the frequently asked
questions (FAQs).
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3. Are you claiming that all the research that has been done by scientists and all the facts
about space exploration are wrong/false?
4. If in the flat earth model space does not exist, then where do all the rockets go?
5. What about all the photos of the earth taken from space?
6. NASA astronauts have been to space. Neil Armstrong was the first man to actually walk
on the moon. Then how comes space does not exist if man landed on the moon?
7. If space does not exist and the earth is an enclosed system, then what is above the
enclosed system? And what is beneath the flat earth?
8. How thick is the flat earth?
9. Why would all the space agencies around the world lie about the shape of the earth and
existence of space?
10. How about the stars and planets?
That covers the most frequently asked questions whenever a person first encounters the idea of
flat earth. All the questions will be answered as we proceed with this article, those that you
already know of and those that you’re yet to understand. I’ve got you covered. I’ll try my best to
make this as brief as humanly possible. After all, the article is meant to be a brief introduction to
flat earth, right? ☻.
Before I proceed, it’s important that I make a few definitions to some very important phrases that
are of great impact to this article.
Scientific Method: an empirical method of acquiring knowledge. It involves careful
Observation, Experimental, and Measurement-based testing.
Empirical Evidence: information that is acquired through observation and
experimentation.
Theory: a set of accepted beliefs, assumptions, ideas, and speculations… intended to
explain something.
Hypothesis: a proposition, assumption, a guess, a speculation, intended to explain certain
phenomena or how certain things might come to happen.
Fact: something that is known or proved to have actual existence.
Reality: the state of things as they actually exists, as opposed to an idealistic or notional
idea of them. Something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
Truth: in accord with fact/reality.
Proof: evidence or argument establishing a fact or the truth of a statement.
Belief: an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.
Faith: strong belief in a doctrine, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
Blind-faith: belief without true understanding, perception or discrimination.
God: the creator, having power over nature.
Religion: belief in a god/gods and especially activities that are connected with this belief.
Indoctrination: the process of teaching a person or group of persons to accept a set of
beliefs uncritically.
Rules: instructions that tell you what you are allowed to do and what you are not.
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Selective Perception: a process by which one only perceives what he/she feels is right,
completely ignoring the opposing viewpoints. He sees the picture only as he wishes to
see, and not what the actual picture is.
Cognitive Dissonance: the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs are contradicted by
new information.
Mind-control/Brain-washing: controlling an individual’s way of thinking, behavior,
emotions or decisions by means of psychological tactics such as intensive indoctrination;
aimed at destroying a person’s own convictions, and making people to lack the ability to
think for themselves.
Fallacy: the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or “wrong moves” in the
construction of an argument. A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning. A false
belief. A fallacious argument may be deceptive by appearing to be better than it really is.
Logical fallacy: a fallacy in logical argumentation.
Pseudoscience: an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions. A
misconception. An incorrect conception. It is presented as science, but does not follow
the scientific method (observable, measurable, repeatable). Pseudoscience is a collection
of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as science. Meaning they were disproved
scientifically, and can’t be tested or lack evidence to support them.
Scientism: a religion where its followers worship science, its rituals and its results. The
belief that science can be successfully applied to all aspects of life and can be used to
explain everything. It is based on a faith that science can provide all forms of answers for
existence. The main purpose for scientism is to use “science” to support the denial of
existence of a god. The greatest followers of scientism religion are atheists, since
scientism and atheism support each other. Atheists use Pseudoscience to support their
claims that a god does not and cannot exist. They seek to use what they claim to be
“science”, to replace a god as the source of infinite knowledge, and foundation of society.
(It should be noted that as I make this statement, I’m not a religious person myself as
such. Neither I’m I a Christian nor Muslim, neither Buddhist, nor Hindu, or any other
religion. But I do believe in existence of an intelligent creator, and my belief is based on
existence of intelligent design alone. So don’t get mixed up). Scientism religion consists
of two main aspects:
1. The Theory of Evolution.
2. Heliocentricity.
A falsifiable theory: a theory that makes predictions which can be used to test it. For
example: the theory of gravity predicts that an apple held above the ground and released
will fall. This does not prove that gravity actually exists, it only supports the notion or the
idea of gravity.
Anything discussed on this article will strictly adhere to the aforementioned phrases. That said, it
is my hope that you will proceed on the rest of this article with an open mind (a receptiveness to
new ideas).
The greatest knowledge known to surpass human reasoning is that of proving what is currently
valuable or disposable from the past practical activities, experiments, or findings, and then settle
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on the right decisions from the critical evaluation. Directly proportional to the above stated
statement, and regardless of the fact that flat earth is a real life experience that can stand
independently, a historical reference is required. In Globe Earth theory, we have historical
figures such as Ptolemy, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein,
and Hawking, who contributed a lot in the scientific community. Thus, it would only be fair to
recognize some of the flat earth historical figures of whom history barely, if at all, recognizes.
Some of them may have been compelled by religion and others by scientific facts but bottom-
line is, they were all flat earthers. (Even Newton was once compelled by an apple, right? The
motivational factor doesn’t matter much like the idea behind it, right? ☻☻).
Pyrrho of Elis.
(c.360 B.C.E – c.275 B.C.E).
A Greek philosopher from Elis. Was credited in antiquity as being one of the first skeptic
philosopher and inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism. His followers adopted the label
Zetetic (Greek meaning seeker). And stressed the importance of observation and personal
experience as a path to truth, claiming that man can only know the world as it appears to him.
This approach had a heavy influence on members of the flat earth movement of the 19th century,
many of whom adopted the label for themselves, forming the Universal Zetetic Society.
Thales of Miletus.
(624B.C – 546B.C).
Considered the first Greek philosopher, Mathematics -Thale’s Theorem: if there exists a circle
with points A, B, and C about its circumference, and AC is a diameter, then ABC is a right angle.
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(Thales theorized that earthquakes were not as a result of divine intervention or other
supernatural forces, but rather that the earth floats on an ocean of water, and that earthquakes are
a result of waves crashing into the earth. (Skeptics will argue otherwise).
English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe, based on decade
long scientific studies of the earth. Published a 16 page pamphlet (1849), which he later
expanded into a 430 page book (1881) expounding his views. According to Rowbotham’s
scientific method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy, the earth is a flat disk centered at the
North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets and
stars only a few thousand miles above the surface of the earth.
Samuel Shenton.
A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society, founded the Flat
Earth Society in 1956, after renaming it from the Universal Zetetic Society. He led the Flat Earth
Society from its founding in 1956 until his death in 1971, at which time leadership passed to
Charles K. Johnson. Shenton collected material, gave lectures and generated publicity.
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Took control of the Community of Zion, Illinois –a religious community which taught Flat Earth
doctrine through the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. After Alexander Dowie resigned due
to poor health and scandal. He kept control over the community and broadcast his flat earth
agenda from 100, 000 Watt radio station in the town.
Was a vocal advocate of flat earth in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries and one of the
founders of the Universal Zetetic Society. Worked extensively with Albert Smith.
Joseph Holden.
(1815 – 1900).
Was a prominent American Flat Earth lecturer in the late 19th Century. Holden was a former
Justice of the peace, trial Justice, candidate for State Senator and census enumerator before
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beginning to lecture at the age of 75. Holden appealed to common-sense evidence to argue his
position. The inscription of his gravestone tells, “discovered that, the earth is flat and stationary,
and that the sun and moon do move.”
Was significant Scottish clergyman in the United States of America. He was the founder of the
City of Zion, Illinois, and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. He was an evangelist and
faith healer. Zion was the main focus of flat earth teaching in America in the early 20th Century.
Majory Johnson.
The wife of Charles k. Johnson, leader of the flat earth society from 1971 until his death in 2001.
Majory acted as secretary for the Flat Earth society. She was also a regular contributor to flat
earth news. A vegetarian and animal advocate. She often wrote about anti-vivisection stance.
After suffering serious health problems in her later years, Majory Johnson died on May 19, 1996.
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Was the second President of flat earth society, after death of Samuel Shenton. Johnson was often
interviewed for his views on flat earth society itself and even made an appearance in an ice-
cream commercial. A house-fire destroyed much of the contact information of the flat earth
society and shortly after his wife died.
Dr. Leo Charles Ferrari (of the flat earth society of Canada).
“Our aim is to restore man’s faith in common sense… seeing is believing… man has
been blinded by Metaphysics, brainwashed by popular fallacies and bullied into denying
the evidence of his very own eyes!
The average man can’t advance a single reason for believing that the world is round. He
accepts that theory on blind faith and rejects the evidence of his own senses. We of the
flat earth society have elected to dispute the one premise that our scientific western
civilization regards as indisputable. Nowadays, if you say that god is dead, the general
reaction is: ‘so what?’
But if you say that the earth is flat; then god help you.” -Dr. Leo Charles Ferrari.
English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816 – 1884). Based on conclusions derived from the
Bedford Level Experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy. He later
expanded into a book, Earth Not a Globe, proposing the earth is a flat disk centered at the North-
pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica. Rowbotham further held
that the sun and moon were 3,000miles (4,800km) above earth, and that the cosmos is
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3,100miles (5,000km) above the earth. He also published a leaflet titled the Inconsistency of
Modern Astronomy and its opposition to the scriptures, which argued that “the bible, alongside
our senses, supported the idea that the earth is flat and immovable and this essential truth should
not be set aside for the system based solely on human conjecture.”
Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of public
debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace. Rowbotham created a Zetetic
Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of zetetic Astronomy.
After Rowbotham’s death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose
objective was “the propagation of knowledge related to natural cosmology in confirmation to the
Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation.” The society published a magazine,
The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th Century. A flat earth
journal, Earth: a monthly magazine of sense and science, was published between 1907 – 1904,
edited by Lady Blount.
In 1956, Samuel Shenton created the international flat earth society, running it as ‘organizing
secretary’ from his home in Denver, England. Given Shenton’s interests in alternative science
and technology, the emphasis on religious arguments was less than in the predecessor society.
“Historical accounts and spoken history tell us the land part may have been square, all in
one mass at one time, then as now, the magnetic north being the center, vast cataclysmic
events and shaking no doubt broke the land apart, divided the land to be our present
continents or islands as they exist today. One thing we know for sure about this world:
the inhabited world is flat, level, a plain world.” –Flyer written by Charles K. Johnson,
1984.
Shenton died in 1971. Charles K. Johnson inherited part of Shenton’s library from Shenton’s
wife, and established, and became president of the International Flat Earth Society of America
and covenant people’s church in California. Over the next three decades, under his leadership,
the flat earth society grew to a reported 3,500 members.
Johnson issued many publications and handled all membership applications. The most famous
publication was flat earth news, a quarterly, four-page tabloid. Johnson paid for these
publications through annual member dues costing US$10 over the course of his leadership.
“Humanity lives on a disc, with the north-pole at its center and a 150-feet (45m) high
wall of ice, Antarctica, at the outer edge. The resulting map resembles the symbol of
United Nations. In this model, the sun and moon are each 32miles (52km) in diameter.”
According to Charles K. Johnson, the membership of the group rose to 3,500 under his
leadership, but began to decline after a fire at his house in 1997 which destroyed all of the
records and contacts of the society’s members.
Johnson’s wife, who helped manage the membership database, died shortly thereafter. Johnson
himself died on 19 March 2001.
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In 2004, Daniel Shenton (not related to Samuel Shenton) resurrected the flat earth society, basing
it around a web-based discussion forum. This eventually led to the official re-launch of the
society in 2009, and the creation of a new website, featuring public collection of flat earth
literature and wiki. Moreover, the society began accepting new members for the first time since
2001, with the musician Thomas Dolby becoming the first to join the newly reconvened society.
As of July 2017, over 500 people have become members. In 2013, part of this society broke
away to form a new web-based group also featuring a forum and wiki.
Flat earth society of Canada was established on 8th November 1970 by philosopher Leo Ferrari,
writer Raymond Fraser and poet Alden Nowlan; and was active until 1984. Its archives are held
at the University of New Brunswick.
Calling themselves “planoterrestrialists,” their aims were quite different from other flat earth
societies. They claimed a prevailing problem of the new technological age was the willingness of
people to accept theories on blind faith and to reject the evidence of their own senses.
Multi-media artist Kay Burns re-created the flat earth society of Canada as an art project with her
alter ego Iris Taylor as its president. Burns created an installation entitled the museum of the flat
earth, which included some artifacts from the 1970 group. It was exhibited in 2016 at the flat
earth outpost café in Shoal Bay, Newfoundland.
Today, individuals from all over the world conduct their own personal experiments. Flat earth
societies/organizations no longer exists, no more presidents, leaders or any kind of registrations.
Flat earth is a scientific fact open to everyone’s scrutiny. In the internet era, the proliferation of
communications technology and social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and
Twitter have given individuals, famous or otherwise, a platform to spread their ideas. The idea of
flat earth has flourished in this environment, where like-minded people come together to share
their ideas. Anyone who researches flat earth and accepts its facts, automatically becomes a flat
earther. Flat earth is not something owned by certain individuals but rather a scientific concept
that should be critically studied by everyone. The term Flat-Earther is used in a sense to refer to
anyone who believes/firmly accepts the fact that the earth is flat.
Currently, flat earth has quite gained popularity across the world (some making fun of the idea
and others in support of the idea), From celebrities to any average man:
Barack Obama mocks Flat earth in 2013, while discussing the importance of acting on
climate change, he said there was no time for “a meeting of the flat earth society” in
reference to climate change deniers. (I find it rather intriguing that he even found room in
his speech to mention it. Know what I’m saying?...).
Rapper B.O.B composed a song titled “flat-line,” in which he claims the earth to be flat.
All-star NBA point guard, Kyrie Irving made public claims that he believes the earth is
flat. Irving made headlines when discussing conspiracy theories with Richard Jefferson
and Channing Frye, two of his former teammates. He tells them “the earth is flat. The
earth is flat… it’s infront of your faces. They lie to us.” He claimed that he has done
extensive research on the topic and knows the science behind it in which has led him to
believe this phenomenon.
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A huge scandal rocked the Tunisian and Arab scientific and educational world. A PhD
student submitted a thesis declaring Earth to be flat, unmoving, young (only 13,500 years
of age), and the center of the universe. Going even bolder and further, the student
explicitly rejected the physics of Newton and Einstein, the astronomy of Copernicus and
Kepler, the cosmology of the big bang, the main models of atmospheric and geographical
activity, and most modern climatology. A PhD student in science; her supervisor held the
professor rank (the highest in academia), and they were explicitly rejecting major parts of
modern science. They also went further than just submit a thesis, they published a paper
presenting physical and astronomical arguments for geocentrism.
Mike Hughes, a daredevil and Flat-Earther, used a home-built manned-rocket in an
attempt to see for himself if the earth is flat on March 24, 2018. His rocket made of scrap
metal and constructed by himself, was estimated to cost $20,000, and using a mobile
home as a custom Launchpad managed to climb 1875 feet with Hughes inside and ended
with a hard landing but with parachutes successfully deploying. The rocketeer was not
seriously injured and remains firm in his flat earth beliefs. He claims that real evidence
will come with larger rockets. (That is quite a great personal achievement. And what’s
even more intriguing is the fact that this man is not about to give up. Not yet).
Poo Bear mocks flat earth in a song titled “hard to face reality” feat Jay Electronica and
Justin Bieber. In the song, he states that “reality is kind of hard to face, like actual facts
and flat-earthers.”
So, if the globe earth theory has been proven beyond doubt, then why is the number of people
who doubt the credibility of the theory rising in the science community? People like Mike
Hughes who would go to any extremes to confirm things for themselves. Why is the number of
flat earthers constantly rising every day? Is the entire society going crazy? Why are there so
many questions? Why are people loosing trust in modern science in 22nd Century? If flat earth is
just some crazy idea, then why are there so many flat earth pioneers spending their time running
flat earth projects, carrying out experiments, writing books, making videos…? People like Eric
Dubay, who is one of the major modern flat earth advocate and writer.
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In the modern world, we are used of being told everything. From the moment you join school as
a kid and begin being force-fed with information and regurgitating on paper, constantly repeating
whatever you’re told all the way up to adulthood. Does not the government approved
institutionalized education test your ability to repeat whatever you’re told accurately? Is that not
what exams are about, testing how accurately you can regurgitate whatever you were force-fed?
So, in a world where we are constantly told everything, do you ever think for yourself? Have you
ever tried to explore any field on a personal level? Do you ever use your own curiosity to try and
discover or solve any mysteries? Have you ever tried to be a producer at any point in your life or
have you been a constant consumer? Have you ever tried to make sense of what you see
independently?
Do you know things because other people have told you and you blindly accepted or do you
know things because you have personally found them to be true?
In this case, can you logically explain why you believe in the spherical earth theory or you
simply trust in the second-hand knowledge that was handed down to you from your childhood on
by people you considered to be trustworthy? Have you ever fact checked the theory? And where
is the harm in the desire to confirm things to yourself?
As you ponder over those questions, let’s look into what we already “know”, I mean, what we’ve
been told all our lives: Heliocentricity.
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This sub-atomic ball of everything is known as the singularity. Inside this extremely
small, massively dense spect of heat and energy, the laws of time and physics as we know
them cease to function (time did not exist). The arrow of time shrinks infinitely as the
universe gets smaller and smaller, never reaching a starting point (it was always reaching
closer to nothing but didn’t become nothing). It just seemed that way from mankind’s
point of perspective.
Events before the Big Bang are not defined, because there’s no way one could measure
what happened then. Since the events before the Big Bang have no observable
consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory and say that time began at the
Big Bang. –Stephen Hawking.
The Big Bang theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it
says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8
billion years to the cosmos that we know today. After its initial expansion, the universe cooled
sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of
this primordial elements (mostly hydrogen, with some helium and lithium) later coalesced
through gravity, eventually forming early stars and galaxies. (Sounds quite convincing. Doesn’t
it?).
Story short, from that, we eventually have the commonly known Solar System. A gravitationally
bound planetary system of the sun and the objects that orbit it. In this case, the subject of our
interest is one particular planet, the earth. This is where other theories such as Darwinism
(Darwin’s Theory of Evolution) comes in.
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A Critical Analysis of Copernican Heliocentrism.
Let us pre-visit a few questions: Today, we are used of being spoon fed with information and
blindly accepting without any critical analysis. So, as a person, do you ever take time question
the credibility of whatever you’re told? Have you ever tried to explore any field at a personal
level? Do you ever use your own curiosity? So, let’s apply some logic and critical thinking on
modern science cosmography.
We are made to believe that the earth is a spinning ball zipping through an infinite vacuum at
incomprehensible velocity. We are told that the earth rotates on its axis at a crazy speed of about
1000miles per hour, not only that, it also orbits around the sun at a speed of about 70,000miles
per hour, a sun that is moving on a straight line at a speed of about 400,000miles per hour in a
constantly expanding universe. And don’t forget there’s a moon orbiting the earth 2,288miles per
hour. Not only does the moon has to orbit the earth but also keep up with it as the earth in turn is
expected to not only orbit the sun but keep up with it as well. And don’t forget all the other
planets which are part of this grand motion. It’s a crazy motion of space balls zipping through
space while whirling around each other at the same time, in what “modern science” refers to as
heliocentric vortex motion.
So, as a globe earth believer and a Copernican heliocentricity fan boy, you believe based on
blind faith that:
1. You are on a space ball spinning and whirling at 1,000mph.
2. You are on a space ball flying through an infinite vacuum at 70,000mph.
3. You are upside down and right side up all at the same time.
4. You are accidental and a product of stardust.
5. Stars are trillions and quintillions of miles away.
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6. The sun is 93million miles away and zipping through an infinite vacuum at 400,00mph.
7. The moon is at an average 238,855miles away and zipping around the earth at 2,288mph.
8. You are riding on a giant space ball that is likely to experience a head-on collision with
some random meteorites as it journeys through an endless vacuum.
Just to mention but a few. So, all this you believe because? Let me guess, “Scientists told you.” I
mean considering all the “real” photos of the earth taken from space and all those satellites, who
would possibly deny such “grand” evidence? (That’s what you’re telling yourself, right?)☻
Real science should be easy to replicate. So can we replicate this Copernican theory? Can we
demonstrate in an observable, repeatable experiment this heliocentric vortex motion? If it cannot
be replicated, then it does not qualify as science, but rather as pseudoscience, with only your
faith to rely on.
If it is not demonstrable, then it is not even scientific, let alone objective reality. –Roberto
Reeves.
We are also made to believe that we evolved from stardust. Evolution is a theory that claims
today’s order came out of chaos. That all living organisms morphed out of some kind of
primordial soup, I don’t know a “gazillion” years ago (or is it billions? Whatever…). In layman
terms, we could safely say that living things grew out of ponds (close enough). ☻
The theory of evolution claims that living cells formed from non-living molecules, producing
purposeful genetic code. Even so, there is no known proven mechanism that can explain how
new purposeful genetic information could arise from non-living molecules. So, before you start
going ape-shit about how archeology and carbon-dating has proven evolution beyond doubt, first
of all hold your horses and tell us again how living cells could possibly form from non-living
molecules. Can the theory be replicated? Is there a practical experiment that can be used to
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demonstrate how inanimate things become animate? None, nada! Such an experiment does not
exist and cannot exist because there is no way inanimate objects can be made animate, period.
No experiment = No science. Another one goes into the pseudoscience category. Furthermore,
carbon-dating has been proven over and over again to be unreliable method of determining the
age of any given object.
And tell me again, at what point did evolution decide to quit morphing things from inanimate
objects and began reproducing through sex? Why did things stop growing from ponds and
reproduce instead? When and how did that happen exactly? Let me guess: you don’t know, do
you? But you believe, right? A massive leap of faith (“I’m totally sold” ☻). So, explain to me
again, how exactly does evolution qualify to be science?
So, let me tell you what evolution truly is. It’s a scientism mythology full of magical shape-
shifting creatures. Hyena-like hooved land walking animals shape shifting into whales, dinosaurs
shape-shifting into birds, apes into men… just to mention but a few. And the saddest part is that
you believe it. (Quite an interesting fairytale).
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1. It’s not science: you can never observe, test, and repeat the allegedly ever-changing ideas.
Evolution cannot be replicated.
2. It devalues real science: Chemistry, Physics, and Biology do not have the same problem
of legitimacy because they are real sciences, not philosophical wannabes trying to appear
legit.
3. Complex engineering: do you ever drive/walk past a skyscraper and think to yourself,
“wow! I guess billions of years have just as easily assembled all that glass, steel, and
concrete.”? Of course you don’t. But when it comes to living organisms, evolution
expects you to believe that the complex design of this organisms happened by chance.
4. Genetics: the programming code of life, according to evolutionists, is just a series of
biochemical accidents and mutations. If you believe in this, you might as well believe
that bridges, buildings, jets, vehicles… came about via natural selection/random chance.
They were definitely designed.
5. Mathematically impossible: Basic probability tells you that the odds of a blob of
primordial ooze morphing into a man, regardless of how much time has passed, are so
remote that mathematicians regard it as impossible.
6. Evolution is a religion: Yes, evolution is the faith of atheism because it replaces god with
man. When you’ve conned yourself into believing that some kind of ancient slime
morphed into progressively complex and directional life forms, you are in the realm of
faith, not science.
7. Racism: This is the ugly secret that evolutionists don’t want to discuss; that Darwin,
Huxley, and many of the early advocates of evolution stated publicly that Asians,
Africans, Australian Aborigines and other non-white, non-European groups were
evolutionary throwbacks. Hitler even tried to breed apes and humans to make a superior
race because of the belief of evolution.
“I suppose the reason why we all jumped at the origin of species (evolution) was because the
idea of god interfered with our sexual desires.” –Julian Huxley, British biologist.
“The theory of evolution, still a theory… says we came from single celled organisms.
This is absurd to me, as walking through a forest and discovering an iPhone and
exclaiming, “Well, this must have evolved from single celled organisms.” –T Damian
Granoff.
The one thing that holds Scientism Religion together is the theory of gravity. Without gravity,
heliocentricity is dead. So is it possible to prove that gravity exists using empirical evidence? Are
there any experiments that can be used to demonstrate gravity? Can we replicate it? (No, nada).
So, what do we normally understand about gravity? That it’s a force that pulls everything
towards the center of the earth and holds the trillions of gallons of ocean water to the globe.
According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, gravity is basically a curvature of space-time fabric
(space-time continuum). One way of envisioning space-time continuum is to think of a large
piece of fabric such as a sheet. Einstein realized that objects with mass, such as a planet, create a
distortion in space-time. Imagine placing a bowling ball in the middle of the sheet. The area
around the bowling ball would be pressed down, creating a dimple in the sheet. These dimples
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represent curvatures in the fabric of the space-time continuum. Einstein identified these curves in
the space-time continuum as gravity. According to Newton, gravity is mass attraction, bigger
objects attracts smaller objects. But, like I mentioned earlier, Einstein debunked Newton many
years ago, and the Sagnac experiment completely destroyed Einstein’s Relativity.
According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, gravity really doesn’t exist. It is mass of objects that
bends space-time and that bending is what we simply call ‘gravity’ (A fictional force). Just like a
pseudo force (centrifugal force) you feel, when you turn a speedy car on road. There’s no such
thing as a centrifugal force but it’s just the side effect of moving car which is changing direction,
but your body wants to keep moving in same direction. In simpler terms, space-time model says:
“Larger the object is, larger the force it has to pull other objects towards itself, than to be
pulled away by any other object.” Now, consider a stretched fabric with balls place on it.
Larger ball will cause other small balls to move towards it. Which gives the best explanation of
curvature of space-time. Hence called the space-time fabric. But that doesn’t mean there’s some
sort of real fabric, it is just a dynamic co-ordinate system.
Hence, gravity cannot be considered as a force on its own, just the way we cannot count
centrifugal force of turning car. –Chirag Vaghela.
Many modern scientists dispute gravity and are more leaning toward an EM universe (Electro-
Magnetic).
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“Gravity is not the reason why things fall down. Things sinks to the ground because of
density and buoyancy. When you let go of a balloon, it rises instead of falling. In this
case, where is the gravity? The balloon rises because of density and buoyancy. It’s less
dense than the air around it. Gravity is not needed to explain why things fall. The real
reason for the theory of gravity (still just a theory), is to explain why there are supposedly
massive bodies of rock hurling around each other. Gravity says that all matter crunches
together to form massive planets of rock. There is no scientific evidence to support this
claim that all matter is attracted to all other matter by their masses alone. That is what the
made up force of gravity really is; to explain imaginary spheres of rock and to make the
claim that they are all spinning around one another.” –Dusty Chutney.
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“Describing how or why things fall by means of an invisible indemonstrable force has no
bearing whatsoever on the alleged sphericity of what you’re standing on, every metric in
the equation is demonstrable except gravity and it doesn’t work in liquids. Gravity is
Incoherent Dielectric Acceleration. It is quite easy to disprove gravity as being the force
that keeps us stuck to earth, for the simple fact that air can be lifted by mechanically
creating empty space. It is the nature of a gas to diffuse to fill empty space. Each
molecule of the gas is bouncing around independently off other particles and moving
around with increased temperature as it carries more energy. We are told that gravity
prevents air from diffusing into space. But, when we create an empty space here on earth,
the air diffuses into it. How is this possible? How is it that a constant downward force,
created by the earths mass, can pull an air molecule away from the vacuum of space at
high altitude, but at the earth’s surface, air immediately fills a vacuum and gravity is
powerless to prevent it diffusing into empty space?
Not only this, but atmospheric pressure of 14.7 Psi (which works out nearly 10 ton per
square-meter), can be used to lift immense weight, simply by using a suction cup and
vacuum pump. With gravity turned on, a vacuum lift would never work, because the
constant downward force of gravity would pull the air molecules away from the empty
space and towards the earth’s surface. The presence of a vacuum would not move air
molecules an inch, as gravity is already pulling them away from a vacuum.
The only way to understand this barring circular logic of, ‘gravity pulls air away from a
vacuum, which means objects can be lifted by air defeating gravity and trying to diffuse
into a vacuum’, is to say that gravity gets stronger the further one goes from earth, so it is
stronger at the boundary to space, but weaker at the earth’s surface.
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Clearly, this is nonsense. The easily demonstrable nature of gases, pressure and the
failure of ‘gravity’ tells us one thing: Our cosmos is limited and enclosed, allowing us to
live and move freely in a pressurized environment.
Gravity comes from the word ‘gravitatem’ (nominative gravitas) ‘weight, heaviness,
pressure,’ from gravis ‘heavy’. Science teaches weight is an external force (gravity)
acting upon mass (object). The excuse for the force acting upon an object and weight of
the object is gravity. Measurable at 9.8m/s^2 or about 10 newtons.
The 9.8m/s^2 fall rate, is actually the action of the object (density) reacting to its
surrounding medium. The equation for buoyancy is Fb=p (fl)*v*g. g does not exist…
object (d=m/v) density reacting to medium (air, water, helium).
The density of an object determines whether it will float or sink in another substance. An
object will float if it is less dense than the liquid (medium) it is placed in. gravity simply
doesn’t exist. Gravity is nothing more than density and buoyancy reacting to its medium
(air, water, helium) in an electromagnetic environment. –Roberto Reeves.
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Relative motion of gaseous substances without containment is not possible in reality.
_Roberto Reeves.
It’s important that you understand the globe theory in order to be able to analyze it
critically. Some of the best modern cosmology books are the ‘Explorations Series.’ You
can begin with –Explorations: an introduction to Astronomy by Thomas T. Arny.
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Modern Flat Earth.
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_Dr. Samuel Rowbotham,” Zetetic Astronomy, Earth not a Globe. P.117.
Vasco de Gama
“The waves rise like mountains in height; ships are heaved up to the clouds, and
apparently precipitated by circling whirlpools to the bed of the ocean. The winds are piercing
cold and so boisterous that the pilot’s voice can seldom be heard whilst a dismal and almost
continual darkness adds greatly to the danger.”
Captain Cook
Captain Ross
“Extending from its Eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the
Eastward. It presented an extra ordinary appearance, gradually increasing in height as we got
nearer to it, and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 feet and 200 feet
above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level on top, and without any fissures or
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promontories on its even seaward face. We might with equal success try to sail through the cliffs
of Dover as to penetrate such a mass.”
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–David Wardlow Scott, “Terra Firma.” P.g.102
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2. If the earth is flat, explain why ships disappear/go down over the horizon.
Ships do not go down over the horizon. They simply get lost to human perception. It’s all
about perspective. The human eye is not capable of seeing forever; everything converges
to a vanishing point. Take for example a straight rail-line, as you stand at one point facing
the rail, it seems to get narrower the farther away from you it extends, until it seems to
merge into a single thin needle-like line. This can also be observed over long roads or
building hallways. Things tend to appear smaller the farther south they get away from the
observer.
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As the ship gets further from the observer, the smaller it seems; until it gets past the
vanishing point and the human eye cannot perceive it anymore. If a high resolution
telescope/camera is used to zoom in on the ship (Nikon 900 or Nikon 1000), the ship will
come back to focus. This would not be possible if the ship had gone down over the
alleged curve of the spherical earth.
Once the ship meets the horizon line, it will intersect with the vanishing point and
become lost to human perception as its increasingly shallow path creates a tangent
beyond the resolution of the human eye. The vanishing point is created when perspective
lines are angled less than one minute of a degree; hence, this effectively places the
vanishing point a finite distance away from the observer. Vanishing point is an infinite
distance away from the observer. However, since man cannot perceive infinitely due to
human limitations, the perspective lines are modified and placed a finite distance away
from the observer. This finite distance to the vanishing point is what allows ships to seem
to ascend into the horizon and disappear as their hulls intersect with the vanishing point.
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3. If the earth is flat, how comes the earth does not light the entire earth at the same time?
Explain day and night.
Because unlike in the globe theory where the sun is a giant gas ball 93 billion miles away,
on a flat earth, the sun is small and localized, and thus does not and cannot light the entire
earth.
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After the sun sets, the sky is still relatively illuminated. It takes a couple of hours for the
deep darkness/blackness of the night to set in. The cause of night is simply due to a non-
transparent atmosphere. As the sun recedes, its light is dimmed and lost to the
increasingly number of atoms and molecules which intersect the light rays. At sunset, it is
possible to look directly at the sun without straining of the eye; while overhead at noon,
looking directly at the sun can be quite painful. This severe reduction of intense light at
sunset is a striking example of how the atmosphere can reduce the intensity of an object
with distance. As the sun descends it will create a tangent into the horizon. The
perspective lines nearly merge, causing the receding body to appear to collapse in on
itself. Next, the light of the receding sun is dimmed to blackness by a non-transparent
atmosphere (atmoplane).
At these times, it appears close to the horizon where the density of air differs greatly, the
air near the ground is denser than the layer of air just above it, and the layer of air above
that is less dense still, and so on upwards until the earth’s atmosphere (atmoplane), peters
out at some 400km. Now, consider what happens when the sun is at the horizon. Light
from the top of the sun is going through the air at a different angle than that from the
lower part from the lower part. So the rays are bent by different amounts before they
reach the observer’s eye. The result is that the bottom part of the sun’s disc appears to be
lifted up. Consequence the sun’s disc appears slightly compressed.
Question:
If the sun is disappearing to perspective, shouldn’t it get smaller as it recedes?
Answer:
The sun remains the same size as it recedes into the distance due to a known
magnification effect caused by intense rays of light passing through the strata of the
atmolayer. It is well known that when a light of any kind shines through a dense medium,
it appears larger or magnified at a given distance, than when it is seen through a lighter
medium. This is more remarkable when the medium holds aqueous particles or vapor in
solution; as in a damp or foggy atmosphere. Anyone may be satisfied of this by standing
within a few yards of an ordinary street lamp, and noticing the size of the flame. On
going away to many times the distance, the light upon the atmosphere will appear
considerably larger (such as when viewing a city from a distance high place). This
phenomenon may be noticed, to a greater or less degree, at all times; but when the air is
moist and vapory, it is more intense. It is evident that the sunrise and at sunset, the sun’s
light must shine through a greater length of atmospheric air than at mid-day; besides
which, the air near the earth is more dense and holds more watery particles in solution,
than the higher strata through which the sun shines at noonday: and hence the light must
be dilated or magnified, as well as modified in color.
Question:
Shouldn’t the sun get blurrier if it is being magnified?
Answer:
The sun actually does get fuzzier when it is at the horizon compared to overhead at
noonday.
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Question:
But, shouldn’t the sun get 4x blurrier if it is increasing its diameter by 4x, for example?
Answer:
No. you are assuming that the sun is being magnified in a similar manner as a magnifying
lens, where blurriness occurs a ratio with the distance. This is incorrect. The
magnification of the sun occurs through a projection. A projection of light is occurring
upon the atmolayer between the sun and the observer.
Question:
Shouldn’t polarized sun glasses or a welding mask be able to restore the sun to its actual
state?
Answer:
The projection is describing a projection upon the atmolayer. The projection is appearing
upon a medium between the source and the observer. Polarized sun glasses or welding
masks are useful for reducing internal glare lens effects within the eye; but would only
darken the scene in this external situation.
4. If the earth is flat, why can’t I see the entire earth from a high place?
I don’t want to call this a dumb question, but it’s a dumb question, that must be answered
all the same. You can’t see the whole world because you can’t, it’s that simple. Your eyes
cannot perceive forever. Because of the law of perspective as mentioned earlier.
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6. If the earth is flat, why doesn’t all the ocean water fall off the edge?
This question is stupid because it assumes that the flat earth is floating in empty space
like in the globe theory. Do not try to incorporate flat earth into the heliocentric model of
the cosmos. And to answer the question: the water does not fall off the edge because
there is no edge. The earth is an enclosed system.
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10. NASA astronauts have been to space. Neil Armstrong was the first was the first man to
Actually walk on the moon. Then how comes space does not exist if man landed on the
moon?
Sorry to burst your bubble. No one, and I mean no one; has ever walked on the moon.
The moon landing was an inside job done in Hollywood studios (you know, green-
screens and all…), and all the fools around the world believed it. Including you.
11. What about all the photos of the earth taken from space?
Which photos, you mean the computer generated imagery that space agencies release
every now and then…? Or which photos are you referring to because even NASA, the
space agency that allegedly landed on the moon, admit that all their images are
composites. (Like I said, space does not exist. You cannot take photos from a place that
does not exist. Only in your imagination is this possible). Tell me again, which photos did
you say…?
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“NASA giving daily articles about places billions of light years away, citing black holes,
which they back pedal now saying that they’re about to reveal the first ever photo of a
real black hole. In that statement exploiting the fact that everything previous to that was
an artist rendition.” –T Damian Granoff.
12. Are you claiming that the research that has been done by scientists and all the facts about
space exploration are wrong/false?
First of all, which facts exactly? And yes, I’m saying that it’s all wrong/false because
there’s a huge difference between Science and Pseudoscience. Space and everything to
do with it is just sci-fi.
13. Why would all the space agencies around the world lie about the shape of the earth and
existence of space? This doesn’t make any sense, it’s not even logic to thing that so many
people would be involved in such a big lie.
The lie because one, they can. Two, you fools will believe them. And three, because the
money.
Or what do you want me to tell you, that they lie to hide existence of a god? Or that space
agencies of the world are involved in a conspiracy faking space travel and exploration;
which likely began during the cold war’s “space race” in which the USSR and USA were
obsessed with beating each other into space to the point that each faked their
accomplishments in an attempt to keep pace with the other's supposed achievements. And
that since the end of the cold war the conspiracy is most likely motivated by greed rather
than political gains, and using some of their funding to continue to fake space travel saves
a lot of money to embezzle for themselves…? Or do you want me to tell you that most
people working for space agencies don’t even know that space doesn’t actually exist?
The point is, this question is overrated, and it doesn’t matter how many people have to be
in on it, if it can’t be proven using empirical evidence, then the number of people
involved doesn’t count. Just because millions of people believe in Jesus doesn’t prove
that Jesus existed.
14. Hasn’t a spherical earth been proven beyond doubt?
If a globe earth had been proven beyond doubt, then I wouldn’t be making this article at
the first place. Because in that case, the globe earth would be unquestionable fact. And
we wouldn’t have so many flat earthers, (I hope that answered your question).
15. Can you prove that the earth is not a sphere?
You would have to prove that it’s a sphere at the first place. Using empirical evidence of
cause. The burden of proof is on you not I. how can I disapprove something that is yet to
be proven,
16. Are there any proofs that the earth is flat?
Abundant. You see, flat earth is not a claim, its reality. A demonstrable, replicable reality.
17. If all the other planets are spherical; isn’t it logic that the earth, also being one of the
planets, must be spherical?
That is like me asking you “Isn’t it logic that balls being round the soccer field should be
round as well?”
(I hope I answered your question).
18. How about the stars and the planets, if space does not exist?
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The stars and planets are just orbs of lights moving across the sky firmament/sky dome.
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sky as well so you never know. And various other explanations of which I would
recommend watching a few eclipse related flat earth videos on YouTube for more on
that. But like I said, if it can’t be replicated, then it’s not science, it doesn’t matter
whether the topic in question is flat earth or globe earth. Which is why I’m making it
clear that the correct answer to the question is >I don’t know.
So far I want to believe you have an endless list of your own questions that came up as you read
this article. But I want to believe I have cleared some of the stereotypes about flat earth. This
article is merely a briefing on flat earth. You still have a long list of things to go through
considering the fact that I only scratched the tip of the ice-berg. There are still many things that
need explaining, the constellations, the math, the experiments… and so on and so forth. This is
the point where I tell you to research flat earth, participate in globe earth vs flat earth discussions
online. Talk to flat earthers, you can start by joining flat earth groups on Facebook, watch
YouTube videos, read Samuel Rowbotham’s book “Earth not a Globe.” Read Eric duby’s books
and watch his YouTube flat earth documentaries. Do your own study, dig for information,
perform your own experiments… and so on and so forth.
But before I conclude, there are two very important things I must mention. That is, The Natural
Physics of Water, and Magnetism.
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So, how do you apply the natural physics of water on a spherical earth? If you cannot prove that
water can conform to the exterior of a sphere or any other object, then plainly, the earth is a
plane and not a globe. That fact alone disapproves the globe theory.
“Can you provide a practical demonstration of water defying physics and fluid mechanics
by adhering to the exterior of another object while displaying uniform convexity across
the entirety of the surface, as the spherical trigonometry of the globe earth dictates it must
in reality?
Claims do not constitute demonstrable practical examples conforming to the scientific
method based on tangible, measurable physical substance to substantiate your faith based
heliocentric belief system where you reside on a physics and fluid mechanic defying
pressurized ball zipping through an infinite vacuum at incomprehensible velocity, and
portrayed by cartoons.
If it is not demonstrable, then it is not even scientific let alone objective reality. I can
practically demonstrate every claim I make about our objective natural world. I live on a
demonstrably level and stationary plane with topography of which the full dimensions I
do not know, it’s self-evident. My world view requires no faith whatsoever. Your globe
model requires a massive leap.” –Roberto Reeves.
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“If 8inches per mile squared isn’t the equation, then what is? It’s that simple, nobody
wants to give an explanation, not even Smug NDT… because to concede that there’s an
actual equation that can you can test for yourself, is throwing the gauntlet down in the
scientific community.” –T Damian Granoff.
“Chicago skyline seen from 59miles has a missing curvature of 2320feet. The missing
curvature at 50miles is 1667feet. Formula for curvature is 8inches times the square of the
distance. So at 50miles you have 8 x 50 x 50 = 20,000 inches.
20,000 ÷ 12 = 1,667 feet.
At 59 miles, 8 x 59 x 59 = 27,848 inches.
27, 848 ÷ 12 = 2,320 feet of missing curvature.” –Dusty Chutney.
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Magnetism.
The earth has an electromagnetic field that is a fact. Magnetic fields take a certain geometric
shape. Nowhere in reality can you find a sphere with a negative charge completely surrounded
by a positive charge like the globe example, where the earth holds the negative charge and the
ionosphere holds the positive charge. In the globe model, there is a circle ball that holds a
negative charge completely surrounded by the ionosphere which is a positive charge. This does
not occur anywhere in magnetics. There is only one choice, a topographical plane.
The geometric shape of magnetism is irrefutable. It is a scientific law. If you took a compass and
you were in the blue half or the top half of the image above, your compass would point towards
the middle. If you are on the bottom half or that red half, your compass your north point again
points towards the middle because there is no difference between a positive field and a negative
field, they are just inverted. Here is a side view of one magnet. Both fields identical.
All matter is magnetic because you couldn’t have matter without the electromagnetic force. The
globe has an impossible magnetic field. They claim the earth has a north and a south pole,
problem though, earth holds the negative charge. The entire sphere of the earth holds –S charge.
The ionosphere which holds the positive charge completely envelops the earth which is the +N
charge. Nowhere in geometric pattern of magnetic fields has this ever been shown to occur.
Nowhere in any type of magnetism does the positive field completely envelop the negative field.
The only possibility is a topographical plane.
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Our model does not need mass bending space-time. As bending is a verb, an action therefore
needs a noun with physical properties. The question is, what are the physical properties of space-
time to allow it to take a physical action?
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Observation is a major scientific law.
One must understand that, to become a geocentrist (flat earther), you have to feverishly study the
heliocentric model (sun centered… solar system) –Thomas Page.
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That marks the end of this article. The main lesson is for you to learn how to think for yourself.
Not blindly accepting and trusting everything you are told. Question everything. Challenge
everything. Keep asking yourself:
Can you logically explain why you believe in what you believe or you simply trust in the second
hand knowledge that was handed down to you from your childhood on, by people you
considered trustworthy?
Do you know things because other people have told you and you blindly accepted or do you
know things because you have personally found them to be true? Have you ever tried to make
sense of what you see? How do you use your own curiosity when you are constantly being told
everything has already been explored and there’s no point, or it’s even harmful to ask questions
about anything?
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