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Flat Earth Q&A / Fundamental questions

« on: February 01, 2007, 01:35:44 PM »

This is pathetic. It's like trying to convince a group of kids there is no santa clause.

Well, I guess I can't convince you I have a PhD... then again, you cant convince me that the earth is flat. I guess we both lose. Or do we both win? Or does one of us lose, and the other wins? I'm not sure.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Fundamental questions

« on: February 01, 2007, 01:07:02 PM »

Please tell me you're not really serious about having a PhD.

If s/he is, I'd like to see some proof.

I don't know what other proof to offer you. I gave you my dissertation title. My advisor was Dr. Stefan Westerhoff. The publication number is  AAT 3213506.

Here's the abstract if anybody is interested in the concept:

This thesis investigates the origins of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays by searching for evidence of small-scale anisotropy in their arrival directions from space. We begin with a short review of what is known about cosmic rays and specifically about the propagation of charged particles through galactic and extragalactic space. We next describe the experimental techniques of detecting these particles by measuring the extensive air showers they produce in the atmosphere, with special focus on the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment. In stereo operation the HiRes detector observes cosmic ray arrival directions with unprecedented angular resolution, on the order of 0.5° at all energies above 10 18 eV, opening a new window in particle astronomy. Before analyzing the data produced by this experiment, we examine previously claimed evidence for clustering of cosmic rays seen by the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) experiment, and identify potential biases in the analysis which call the evidence into question. An unbiased method is then developed to search for the same kind of clustering signal and is applied to the HiRes data. We next develop an unbinned maximum likelihood ratio test for point-source searches, a technique that is optimal for data combined from experiments with different angular resolution, and we apply this to the combined set of HiRes and AGASA data. Finally, we investigate a series of recent claims that ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, including those observed by HiRes, are correlated with the positions of bright BL Lacertae objects (a class of active galaxies), and propose tests of these claims that require independent data. We conclude that at present no statistically significant evidence exists for small-scale anisotropy.
 




All this nay-saying about me having a PhD? How many FE people have obtained their PhD? You seem to be experts on the requirements. I couldn't seriously beleive that anybody with a formal education in science would believe the flat earth theory / conspiricy.

If you want cool conspiricies to investigate, you should look at how Tesla's death ray may have caused the Tunguska blast or maybe the philadelphia experiments.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Fundamental questions

« on: February 01, 2007, 11:52:40 AM »

Well, all physics aside, I just have one last important question:



Have any flat earth people ever been laid?...




By a human of the opposite sex....





That you didn't have to pay for?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Fundamental questions

« on: February 01, 2007, 10:05:24 AM »

Well, I have a PhD in astrophysics, I don't know what else to tell you. I completed the degree in winter of 2006 at Columbia University. My dissertaion was entitled "Anisotrophy of arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays"

I suppose cosmic rays are a conspiricy as well?

Either way, I am well aware of the differences between velocity and accelaration, as well as relativity. However, concepts like these certainly do not apply when travelling many times the speed of light.

I don't beleiev I will be posting on the forum much anymore. I don't have the time and all concepts here are too juvinle. Additionally, the responses are insulting. I loved the answer to "how could all the world's governements cover this up when they are conflicting (or something like that)" with the anwer "they are just appearing to be like that to help the cover up (or something like that)"

Wow, was the holocaust orchestrated because too many people were starting to catch on or something?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Gravity?

« on: February 01, 2007, 09:39:20 AM »

OK, the sun and earth are accelaerating at the rate of 1g? This indicates that the earth (something like 4 billion years old) would be moving at about 4.5 x 10^20 meters / second right now. Speeds like that would destroy anything. Also, why is the gravity on the moon about 1/6 of that of earth if they are accelreating at the same rate?

I noticed your sun rotation FAQ explaining day and night. Please explain a lunar eclipse. Traditionally, a lunar eclipse is when the shadow the earth is cast upon the moon. How is this possible if the earth is always below the sun and moon? Don't beleive in lunar eclipses? You should check it out sometime. The next one is March 3, 2007.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Fundamental questions

« on: February 01, 2007, 09:10:45 AM »

Hello gentlemen, I stumbled across this site at thought it was a joke… until I realized how seriously some of you were actually taking this “conspiracy”.  Well, I have a PhD in astrophysics, and just wanted to ask a few very fundamental questions that seem to contradict this theory:


1.  How do you explain gravitation on earth? If the point of gravity was at the center of this plane that is earth, all people, buildings, trees, water, ect. on the outer edge would be pulled toward the center.

2.  If the gravitation point is in some far off location deep beneath the flat earth, how do you explain rotation of the earth? Specifically, how can it be night time in North America (moon and starts visible), when it is light (only sun visible) in Asia? Additionally, wouldn’t all the water in the oceans drain off of the sides if there was some far off gravitation point?

3.  How thick is this slab that you call earth?  Sonar has show that the oceans are over 7 miles deep, resulting in about 2.3 million pounds of pressure being exerted on the ground.  That would take one very strong slab of dirt and rocks to support.



I could come up with about 200 questions like these, but really don’t have the time.  I would love to see some intelligent responses or explanations for just these three.