Message from @TheBiscuitMuncher
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how wouldn't it?
if gravity is mass attracting mass...one could imagine a flat-surfaced earth with the same mass as the globe model
equations would work fine
How's it going, doc! I think because gravity pulls mass towards a center of gravity, so a sphere would be the natural resting state for any accumulate pulled together through gravity.
Hey @Drewski4343 !
exactly
yeah I've heard this argument before. it's rubbish. look at huge mountains. they are not globes. so is there some "critical mass" at which point things turn globular?
never observed before
what is that mass?
what does that have to do with anything?
saying that earth should be a sphere bcs of gravity is BS. it's not science
has never been observed...or replicated
doesn't happen
I believe mountains are formed from plate shifting, though.
but if there is a natural effect of gravity to force large things into a globe..
why are they not "globing" ๐
it's rubbish
not science
because the theory of gravity states that gravity is a field
a "field"
and?
could also apply to a flat surface earth. nobody said it was a disk
we have no idea what is underneath
imagine a magic 8-ball toy
flat spot on top of a sphere
Gravity could work with a flat earth if itโs infinite
Or big enough
or, say, a longer cylinder.
Why not
but then logically, the sphere would have to be so big that all of it would be affected at the same rate
and that still doesn't explain how it would have formed
the earth being infinitely big makes no sense
though, according to mainstream science, a cylinder can't form that way.
true
The "attraction" of mass to a central point is uniform in all directions, so particulate would naturally accumulate in a sphere.
or, roughly sphere-shaped. Beyond a certain mass, though, the mass is dense enough to continually "fall" inwards, collapsing further into a sphere.
I read up on mountains and gravity and, apparently, mountains actually lose half their height by around 20 millions years.
*well then*
it's not science. has never been observed. cannot be replicated. not testable
it's just a supposition