Ask HN: How do I Convince someone the Earth isn't flat Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament. How do I prove it's not round/sphere. |
Ask HN: How do I Convince someone the Earth isn't flat Ran into a few religious people who suggest the earth is a firmament. How do I prove it's not round/sphere. |
Not that it matters. Flerfers have had decades coming up with increasingly elaborate and absurd cosmologies. They don't understand them, but that's what science looks like to them as well, so they figure it's your word against theirs. And since their word is the Bible, they win.
If they were genuinely curious, there are a million ways to show the roundness of the earth. But there are zero ways to demonstrate it to a person who is fundamentally incurious and doesn't want to know.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26427/what-is-th...
Have to convert the radicals.
One argument is when the plane lands why doesn't it curve. Another is why can we see over 1500km with a telescope.
The firmament is the sky, not the ground.