Drama is good for memes, btw

I'm a big memer, so you will always find me lurking when chaos ensues.

@JPineda777 ngl, videos with that dramatic of an opening turn me off

The paul video

yo, may I ask questions here?

so why is acceleration downwards not constant on a flat earth?

I can explain it on a globe just fine

but not a flat surface

yes

yo

@Metallica why did I get muted?

@-BigBB416 - unmute me

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/507027429823348756/527875688322301993/Mr_Batman.gif

but they all get paid by the same person @Umwhat

https://youtu.be/XbYc3SS10NQ

@Flat Earth PhD You have a PhD in chemistry? Awesome! So how to do calculate the average London dispersion force between two molecules of glucose again? We only skimmed over it in General Chemistry II.

@Jondar02 you have a major/degree?

@Sassy Undeniably do you know what tidally locked means?

yep

get a string and a ball

attach the ball to the string

paint the side with the string red

spin the ball around your fist

the red side will always face you

sorry

doing two things at once

yes

your fist

thank you triscuit

that isn't what you asked

you asked for an example of tidal locking

now, it is not a string

but it is still a force

exactly

like if you walk while spinning it around your fist

it always faces your fist

always

now, if you change the set up slightly

you can have the ball not be tidally locked

but that would require changing what forces are acting where on the ball

NII

Newton's Second Law

why would we see the dark side?

and tbf we have seen parts of it because of the moon's wobble

like

59% of the total surface

a flat moon would distort

it would loose it's disc shape as it approaches the horizon

and a round moon would get weird next to a flat earth

Now, gravity is not a self-contained idea

it is a consequence of Newton's Third Law

or at least can be simplified to be a part of it

@Sassy Undeniably Are you familiar with Newton's Laws

?

I'm getting a degree in Geophysics

so maybe?

What are you even trying to say to me?

I want to know why downward acceleration is not constant if the earth is flat.

If gravity isn't real, it should be a constant value

that or the product of another phenomenon

@Sassy Undeniably Do you happen to know why?

@Triscuit so whazzup?

@chad46 @Sassy Undeniably I live ina world in which things are consistent

if something is not consistent, it is caused by factors which are

downward acceleration is not a theory

if you drop something in a vacuum (i.e. ignore air resistance) it falls at roughly 9.8 m/s^2 downwards

here is the thing

that 9.8 changes based on where you are

@chad46 nothing

I just want to better understand LDF

@Sassy Undeniably are you telling me thing's don't accelerate downwards?

It doesn't prove anything but that things falling cannot be due to a fundamental interaction alone

it only starts to 'prove' things when looked at in respect to other knowns

like Newton's Laws

is nature consistent?

@chad46

hang on

answer that question

is it consistent?

hang on

is it consistent?

it's a yes or no question

if you don't know then neither you nor I can prove anything

and everything is pointless

why not?

does 2+2 = 4?

yes

it is consistent

2 plus 2 is and will always be 4

hang on

will the sun rise in the east and set in the west?