Okay, but then you also have to *falsify* it by showing that it's *only* gravity affection them and nothing else

If we hadn't observed the planets behave in a way that conformed to models involving gravitational interaction we wouldn't assume so

That's not how that works?

Because gravity is an adequate explanation, but so is that planets are wandering motes of light in the sky.

Except that it's exactly how it works

The scientific method relies on observation, experimentation, repeatability and falsification

So yes, the basketball is flat

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Falsifiability in science refers to the ability for a hypothesis to be disproven, not that you must prove that is the only thing that could affect it

You can come up with any number of ridiculous, outlandish ideas that would explain the same behaviour, and then by your logic you would have to disprove every single one in order to say gravity is the only thing involved

You cant falsify the globe earth unless you flew up and either hit a barrier or saw the earth was flat

Except we start seeing curvature at 50000 feet

Yes, by *disproving* alternative explanations. If phenomenon A can be explained by observation B and observation C, how do you determine which observation adequately explains the phenomenon?

There has to be assumptions made with everything

Any conversation

@Bannebie The one that has evidence to back it

Precisely.

@Hamburger Guy yeah but 70 percent of the Earth is covered with water

Here, let me give you an example

So Earth is mostly flat

You're coming up with hypothetical alternate theories that have an equal amount of evidence. For orbits, those _do not exist_

It's not mostly mountain

Water isnt flat

We do not have another explanation with even close to the amount of observations and evidence and models we have for orbital theory

That makes no sense

The earth is oblong

@Death9Reaper It's mostly flat

Water is not level heard of ocean currents

*under certain weather conditions

They are schedule though

Well yeah but it still isnt flat over long distances

@Death9Reaper proof?

@Death9Reaper That's CGI there are better photos

Would you like more photos

@Death9Reaper You realise that's an ADMITTED stitched together cartoon?

So are cartoons evidence then?

Great

@Human Sheeple Having different shots of an object which are then put together doesn't make it fake