• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 days ago

    I used to work with one. The notion is that the sun travels in essentially a circle above the earth-disk and is also much smaller and much closer than you’ve been led to believe. They believe that the world actually is exactly as it looks in an azimuthal equidistant projection centered on the North Pole, and that it being what the world really looks like is why that’s the map on the UN logo. Antarctica is essentially the rim of the world and what keeps the ocean from pouring over the edge of the disk, like the rim of a giant bowl.

    You dig deep enough and you learn that they also don’t believe in gravity (because if gravity was real then it would tend to pull people nearer the edge of the disk at a deeper slant relative to the surface). It’s just that the Earth-disk is accelerating upwards through the void at 9.8 m/s^2.

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      14 days ago

      The earth accelerating upwards wouldn’t negate the effects of gravity though. So they actually don’t believe in the concept of gravity at all?

      So what keeps the sun and moon and all the planets from crashing into the Earth then?

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        When I previously wrote that if you get deep enough into it they don’t believe in gravity, I meant that. No gravity, what you and I call gravity is a consequence of everything accelerating upwards at 9.8 m/s^2 causing a downward force exerted on everything. The sun and moon are also accelerating at the same speed (the entire firmament and its contents are). I have no idea about the other planets, but it’s probably something equally dumb.