Just when did this conspiracy to hide the true shape of the earth start?
How could any money be made from hiding the shape of the earth centuries ago?
I'd like to expand on rabinoz's question:
How does misrepresenting the shape of the Earth make money for anyone, then or now? What did Eratosthenes gain by claiming the Earth is round? What did Galileo gain, other than being put under house arrest by the Catholic Church and threatened with torture? What does France gain by claiming the Earth is round? NASA gets funding from Congress, but what do the Congresscritters get?
Well for starters..those who seek the spotlights in ancient times in modern alike mostly are driven to spend their time in nothing other than telling,hearing or discovering something revolutionary and unique.
Totally irrelevant to the questions asked, which were:
- Just when did this conspiracy to hide the true shape of the earth start?
- How could any money be made from hiding the shape of the earth centuries ago?
- How does misrepresenting the shape of the Earth make money for anyone, then or now?
The more outragious the better....sets you apart from the mediocre rest.(Einstein's relativity)
Totally irrelevant to the questions asked.
It was common practice to create new and exiting hypothesis within certain boundaries of the given culture or major conviction.
I have heard so many untrues about the Catholic church and their supposed fear of the heliocentric model...it's absurd.
So have I, but that is still totally irrelevant to the questions asked.
Many ''cosmo'' related things start off as thought experiments with no bearing in the real world.
Such as?
Most "things" start off as an attempt to answer an unanswered question or explain an observation - eg why to ships disappear hull first.
But this is totally irrelevant to the questions asked!
After a while it becomes an industry about who controls reality, the books ,education, the idols, the general public....then lot's of money is involved for who comes on top.
That might be your story but how does that go anywhere to answering:
"Just when did this conspiracy to hide the true shape of the earth start?" or "How could any money be made from hiding the shape of the earth centuries ago?"
And nothing has changed, because when something is published in ''nature or science'' you can harvest your financial future.
Therefor deceit is common practice on every thinkable level...has nothing to due with truth findings per see.
Don't be ridiculous! Neither of those claims has any truth. If you disagree then provide enough evidence to make your claim believable.
And there are numerous publications contrary to "mainstream science" though there is no accepted "mainstream science"!
There are many that still question Einstein's Relativity, both SR and GR and their papers certainly do get published in refereed high-quality journals.
If you want a Nobel prize just present a theory that provides better explanations than either or both (preferably both) of Quantum Theory and/or General Relativity.
That is no joke because it is a known fact that they cannot both be completely correct because they are incompatible.
So, dutchy, you talk through your proverbial hat!