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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 21 points 3 months ago (14 children)

What I never understood about this theory was: where do you fall down to? And if the moon is a sphere, why not the earth?

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

The flat earth is constantly accelerating "upwards", which is what creates the equivalent of sane people gravity. So it's not really falling over the edge as the Earth leaving you behind.

[–] zagaberoo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

Interestingly, General Relativity shows that gravity is equivalent to the surface of the earth constantly accelerating upward, even on our lovely globe.

floatheadphysics on YT does a great job explaining

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