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Earth : Flat or Spherical ?

The Planet Earth is:

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maquiscat said:
Here's what I want to know. If the earth really is flat and there is a conspiracy to hide that fact, why? What's the payoff? The sheer amount of people who would have to be in on it is staggering!

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Nobody is in on it... the world is flat but very few people can comprehend or experience it properly...
 
Lursa said:
Isnt it actually a sphere but oblate because of physical forces?
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Without the rotation it would have been even closer to a sphere. Consider Venus, which is much more nearly spherical than Earth. It takes 243 Earth days to make one day on Venus--a much slower rotation. Thus much less inertia when Venus was cooling billions of years ago, and therefore the result was closer to a sphere.
 
maquiscat said:
Here's what I want to know. If the earth really is flat and there is a conspiracy to hide that fact, why? What's the payoff? The sheer amount of people who would have to be in on it is staggering!

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Lets hope that too many people dont gather in one spot.....

 
Phys251 said:
Without the rotation it would have been even closer to a sphere. Consider Venus, which is much more nearly spherical than Earth. It takes 243 Earth days to make one day on Venus--a much slower rotation. Thus much less inertia when Venus was cooling billions of years ago, and therefore the result was closer to a sphere.
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So then the answer to my question is yes.

The Earth is a sphere...currently slightly deformed by physical forces...but if those forces are removed...it retains it's true form: a sphere.
 
Lursa said:
So then the answer to my question is yes.

The Earth is a sphere...currently slightly deformed by physical forces...but if those forces are removed...it retains it's true form: a sphere.
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Technically not. It's very close to one, and it serves as a good approximation for teaching purposes. But it's technically incorrect to call the Earth a sphere.
 
Phys251 said:
Technically not. It's very close to one, and it serves as a good approximation for teaching purposes. But it's technically incorrect to call the Earth a sphere.
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Earth with no external forces is a sphere, correct? Yes or no?

It might still be flattened at the poles. Would it be?
 
Lursa said:
Earth with no external forces is a sphere, correct? Yes or no?

It might still be flattened at the poles. Would it be?
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External forces? Those would be the Sun, the Moon, and the tiny influences from other bodies such as Jupiter (yes, Jupiter has an extremely slight effect on Earth's orbit).

Did you mean the rotational inertia of Earth itself? If the matter that cooled into Earth had had very little rotational energy, then yes Earth might have become nearly a perfect sphere.
 
Phys251 said:
External forces? Those would be the Sun, the Moon, and the tiny influences from other bodies such as Jupiter (yes, Jupiter has an extremely slight effect on Earth's orbit).

Did you mean the rotational inertia of Earth itself? If the matter that cooled into Earth had had very little rotational energy, then yes Earth might have become nearly a perfect sphere.
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Yes, I meant all those things.

It means the earth is a sphere...affected by external and internal forces.
 
Lursa said:
Yes, I meant all those things.

It means the earth is a sphere...affected by external and internal forces.
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Whatever. We're splitting hairs at this point. Earth is NEARLY spherical.
 
The Earth is clearly shaped like a carrot, with a hypermass at the pointy end. We live on the hemispherical other end, and if you walk too far in one direction, the folded space from the hypermass leaves you on the other side of the hemisphere, thus creating the illusion of the planet being spherical. It would look that - spherical - from orbit, too.

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Looks pretty flat to me.

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Actually everyone is wrong. The Earth is actually a Dyson sphere.

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Hamish Howl said:
The Earth is clearly shaped like a carrot, with a hypermass at the pointy end. We live on the hemispherical other end, and if you walk too far in one direction, the folded space from the hypermass leaves you on the other side of the hemisphere, thus creating the illusion of the planet being spherical. It would look that - spherical - from orbit, too.

Have the Nobel sent to my house. I'm not going to Sweden in the wintertime.
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Now are you talking about a ladened carrot or an unladened one?

Not that it really matters, carrots are imaginary constructs.
 
Lursa said:
Earth with no external forces is a sphere, correct? Yes or no?

It might still be flattened at the poles. Would it be?
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If you mean if those forces were removed now, probably not. Had those forces not been present when the earth initially cooled, probably.

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It's cube-shaped. Oh wait...I thought you said Htrae!
Hoo boy is my face red!
 
LouC said:
Well, we were fairly certain it was essentially round, most of our life, but then with all this string theory and membrane theory and alternate dimensions where everything thing that could be likely is, came along, and, well, we just aren't so sure anymore.

Perhaps the earth is flat and it is just our vision that is curved?

Who knows?

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If the earth was flat cats, including the one in your avatar, would have pushed everything off by now.
 
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