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So how do you accept that rate? As I thought to understand it. it's not a constant velocity but a rate of acceleration.
Well, I guess I didn't have to correct you on that mistake after all.
And along the same lines, what seems confusing is the speed you believe the Earth is traveling at. How were you able to observe that the Earth is indeed increasing in velocity?
Since some people on this forum believe the Earth is flat, they also needed an explanation for why we accelerate towards the ground, and gravity just doesn't work because the Earth wouldn't be flat if it existed, so they just took a guess and said that the Earth accelerates upwards at that rate. This would mean that the Earth must be constantly increasing in velocity since it's constantly accelerating upwards.
And if I was to take an object, and hold it in the air, why won't it stay in the air? This thought comes from the observation of throwing a ball up while inside a car. The ball, though not directly sitting in the car, continues to accelerate at the same rate while it is still in the air. It didn't fly backwards.
It won't stay in the air because the flat Earth is supposedly accelerating upwards, and similarly, it would fly backwards if the car if the car were accelerating during the toss.
They say that gravity warps space and causes objects to be "pulled" towards super masses like planets and stars, but your help guide disregards, to some degree, the accepted scientific thoughts on gravity.
Flat Earth theory (FET) disregards a whole lot more than just gravity. Consider this:
If the Earth were flat, and since the sun always shines on some part of the Earth at all times, the sun must hence always be above the flat Earth. But how could this be when we observe the sun to fall below the horizon?
This is just one of the many anomalies that FET fails to explain.
- By what authority to you accept the proposed rate of acceleration?
- How have you all observed this rate of acceleration in order to know it's true?
The rate of acceleration has been observed in various ways by actual scientists. The only difference is that mainstream science says it's gravity accelerating the mass towards Earth, while FEers have been forced to make up a new theory by claiming that the Earth accelerates towards the sky at that rate.
- Why would the Earth's acceleration "push" objects back to the ground instead of allowing them to accelerate in the air?
Newton's first law says that an object in motion that has no force applied to it will continue along its path. At any point in time, the Earth is moving upwards at some velocity v, and so is an object on the surface. The Earth is accelerating however, so it speeds up and manages to catch up to the object.