Re: Flat Earth

You could visit a mining site and go down haha. How flat do the believers think the world is? Is it supposed to be 2 dimensional or are they saying its a few miles wide or what?

I actually never heard about how they think about the depth of earth.

@Batman: Can you dig "through" earth and fall off?

If you go up to the top of a building - don't make it a tall building; 3 stories high is enough - and you jump off, do you fall up or down? You fall down, of course.

The point? If you dug through the earth to the other side, and you fell out of the hole you dug through, can you call that falling up?

Grin

If you could actually dig a whole through a (real world) earth and jump through it without getting molten you would eventually move from falling down to falling up, because the center of gravity is in the center. On a flat plane that would be different, hence my question toward the flat earth "truther".

You've got to understand gravity is not for real. The force pushing you to the ground is caused by your body displacing the atmosphere and the reactive pressure pushing your dense body down.

It doesn't matter what name you choose to assign to the phenomenon of "stuff" being attracted to massive bodies. You could call it a force of repulsion from low mass/energy regions to such with more. It doesn't matter. The fact is that there's some kind of gradient that has predictable effects on our environment. And this kind of gradient would, regardless of how you choose to label it, cause a change of direction to be well defined in the event of something falling through a spherical body.

You still haven't really responded to the "flat/plane" scenario.