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« on: September 06, 2007, 08:00:41 PM »
You cannot disprove the round earth "theory" by small scale tests. its impossible. pouring sand on a beach ball and watching the sand roll off does not equate to people on the earth.
Heres a main flaw with small scale tests such as that, and it is a flaw that exists with both RE and FE theories:
The acceleration 9.8 m/s2 is commonly referred to as "G" or "gravity". this force exists, there is no denying that. if you pick up a book and let go of it, the book does not float in the air. this force is greater than the "gravity" that may or may not exist between two masses that we can relate to. if you pour sand on a beach ball, the sand is being pulled more by "G" than the gravitational force that may or may not exist between the ball and the sand particles. thus, the particles will always slide off of the beach ball.
Since we cannot escape this "G" force, as it is everywhere, we cannot subtract it from any equation in a small scale experiment. and even a larger scale experiment would still be acted upon by "G", and still affect the results.
The logically way a RE'er would escape this force would be to launch into space, where "G" is much much less prevalent. But this solution cannot exist in FE theory, thus, all small scale tests to disprove RE theory in a FE world are invalid.