Our oceans would spill into space, leaving Earth a lifeless, barren land similar to Mars.īut suppose somehow we managed to survive all of gravity’s grueling ways to destroy us, our living experience on a disc-shaped planet would still be completely different. It’s what protects our atmosphere from the Sun’s harmful solar winds, and without it, our atmosphere would dissipate. ![]() The outer core is composed of molten iron and nickel that act as a giant magnet, creating Earth’s magnetic field. Earth is made up of three layers with the densest material sinking to the core, the lighter making up the mantle, and the lightest making up the crust. Without its spherical shape, our planet would lose its layered structure and behave very differently. Earth would already be uninhabitable to life as we know it, and it’s only just the beginning. As more air gets sucked into the Earth’s center, it creates an atmosphere that would be lung-crushing close to the North Pole, and without enough oxygen to breathe at the outer edges. ![]() The effects of flat Earth gravity doesn't end here. Rain, snow and hail would also fall toward the center, while trees would grow diagonally, developing in the opposite direction of gravity’s pull. Oceans, seas, rivers, streams and all other water bodies would converge at the center of the planet. As a result, trying to reach the supposed ice walls of Antarctica at the edge would be impossible as the gravitational pull would make it seem as if we’re climbing a hill that only gets steeper. This means that the further you get away from the center of the disc, the stronger gravity pulls you back toward the center. Knowing what we do suggests that it would pull toward the center of the disc-shaped Earth at its North Pole or the Arctic. It’s unclear how gravity would behave on a flat planet. Imagining a flat Earth would mean that gravity as we know it must be having no effect.īut let’s say for the sake of argument that gravity would still have an effect. Gravity is the reason Earth, and all other planets, are round. Our understanding of gravity has developed throughout the years from being a force that pulls us toward its center of mass, to being reimagined as the curvature of spacetime that sets the course for planets to rotate around their stars. What if the Earth was actually flat? How different would our world be from what it is right now?įirst, if the Earth was flat, we’d all be dead. But with all the popularity this topic gets, it’s only right that we ponder the concept. With all the evidence in the world to prove that this is not the case, why do thousands of people still believe that the Earth is flat including one-third of American millennials? The truth is a combination of a lot of different things which we don’t have time to go into in today’s video. Perhaps the most popular is that the Arctic or the North Pole is at the center of the planet, while Antarctica surrounds its edges with thick and long walls of ice, a pancake-shaped Earth floating in space as the Sun and other planets rotate above it like a celestial carousel. These included movie stars, rappers and professional athletes.įlat Earth theorists have different models supporting their idea. In no time, flat Earthers began growing in number, attracting some pretty well-known members of society. ![]() As the internet began to increase in popularity, so did this organization. Then, a society of Flat Earthers was set up in the 1950s, transforming the group from conspiracy theorists to an organization with thousands of members. The idea first resurfaced in recent history in the 1800s. Yet, throughout history, groups of people have been constantly reemerging to push the notion that the Earth, our tiny blue planet floating in space, is in fact flat. Aristotle proved it empirically by traveling to Egypt and witnessing new constellations of stars from the other side of the globe, after Eratosthenes used no more than a stick and light from the Sun to calculate the Earth’s circumference in the time of Ancient Greece. This is something we’ve known now for thousands of years.
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