Get back to me when you understand why "an arse hair off the speed of light" is completely irrelevant in the context of your false blanket statement regarding the earth tearing itself apart.
You are correct in one sense - the earth would tear itself apart whatever the speed. The relativistic velocity just means it would do it much more quickly and spectacularly.
Why isn't the earth being torn apart in RET? And why are you using the term "relativistic velocity" in this context?
Because, unlike UA proposed for the flat earth in place of gravity, the force gravity exerts on
your mass accelerates
you toward the center of the Earth at about 9.8 m/s
2, but this varies slightly depending on where (and how far from the center of the Earth) you are. UA has the flat earth itself accelerating "upward" at 9.8 m/s
2. If this varies over the surface (it's does), then part of Earth is accelerating at a higher rate than another, which means the areas with higher acceleration at the surface (the poles vs. the Equator) will be traveling faster and cover more distance in a finite amount of time.
The measured difference in the acceleration of gravity at sea level at the Equator is about 0.5% less than at the poles.
Since distance traveled, s, is s = at
2/2, then after one day (86400 seconds):
s
equator = 9.7755 m/s
2 (86400 sec)
2/2
= 36,486,858,000 m
= 36,486,858 km
s
pole = 9.8245 m/s
2 (86400 sec)
2/2
= 36,669,750,000 m
= 36,669,750 km
Meaning the polar regions have traveled "upward" 182,892 km further than the equatorial regions after a single day. Given that even the young-earth crowd puts the age of the Earth at several thousand years, it seems like this would be somewhat of a problem.
Any variations in g would mean (under the UA model) that different parts of the planet are accelerating at different rates - with predictable results.
Yep. The regions with just slightly lower acceleration would lag other regions by almost 200,000 km in very short order.
Right, because of the "relativistic velocity" or something....
No, we haven't even gotten into relativistic effects yet. Since velocity v = at, after one day, the slower-accelerating equatorial regions are traveling
v
equator = 9.7755 m/sec
2 * 86400 sec
= 844,603.2 m/sec
= 844.6 km/sec
This is still well below relativistic velocity (the speed of light is about 300,000 km/sec). After a few weeks, however...