Hi everyone, this will be my first post on your forums. My name is Evan.
I am your average everyday, what-you-would-call-globularist. I recently stumbled across your forums, have been going through some of your press releases, and find myself fascinated by the physical explanations you've devised here to explain a flat-world model. Clearly the stereotypes of flatists as uneducated and ignorant are simply not true. While I remain unconvinced, I respect the extremes you've gone to in pursuing one of the most fundamental principles of science, questioning everything. In the interest of intellectual honesty, I'd like to know more about your stance.
I'm particularly intrigued by the school of thought completely rejecting the idea of gravity, instead postulating an upward acceleration of earth at 9.8 m/s^2. Gravity always did strike me as kind of an oddball among the four fundamental forces in modern physics. We can identify the fundamental particles involved in the strong/weak nuclear forces and in electromagnetism, but not gravity. To date, we have not yet found any sort of "graviton".
I'll get to my point now. I was reading your FAQ and came across this:
"The earth isn't pulled into a sphere because the force known as gravity doesn't exist or at least exists in a greatly diminished form than is commonly taught. The earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity. Imagine sitting in a car that never stops speeding up. You will be forever pushed into your seat. The earth works much the same way. It is constantly accelerating upwards being pushed by a universal accelerator (UA) known as dark energy or aetheric wind. This acceleration does not violate physics and according to Einstein's theory of special relativity, we can accelerate forever without reaching the speed of light."
Okay, so Socratic method here: unless I'm misunderstanding you or physics, I'm not sure I'm really buying the "constant acceleration" bit. Sure, according to relativity, you can accelerate indefinitely without reaching the speed of light, but you can't accelerate at a CONSTANT rate of 9.8 m/s^2 indefinitely, could you? Your acceleration would have to decrease eventually as you get closer to the speed of light? Would this not eventually reduce the perceived weight of humans standing on Earth's surface?