It has nothing to do with the earth’s shape.

@Derek Nelson but we have a problem

Yes it does, the FE cannot predict any stellar movement

why do we see faults where they exist?

and why do plates move?

Because you dont even believe orbiting bodies LOL

I think you can only know the truth if you have been both a globe earther and a flat earther, and you have genuinely believed in both.

This allows unbiased comparison

dude, the truth is simple.

The earth is round

@Derek Nelson please focus on this conversation

@he vibin tho would you give me a few minutes?

I don't think I'm sticking around much longer

@Amthyric We’ve never even seen a plate tectonic.

lol have fun, you wont get anywhere these guys like to spam pictures when they have nothing to say

@Derek Nelson do you know what plate tectonic means?

How can you claim that for sure, when you’ve never observed or measured them?

I'm a geology major

can you define a plate tectonic?

You’ve been over 100 miles deep?

hang on

Yes or no.

please define a plate techtonic

you said we have not observed them

Nah. You answer my question.

👀

No

You can say
"The truth is simple. The earth is flat"
500 years ago.
Now people say
"The truth is simple. The earth is round"
But how can anyone be sure that in the future people will not universally say
"The earth is cubical."
If we are not certain that our current model will not change and cannot be improved by changing the shape, then we can conclude that we don't have the right shape.

We haven’t.

because people 500 years ago didnt know jack. They were misinformed and also believed in unicorns and fairies

they are not 'plate tectonics' they are 'plates'

tectonic is an interaction

Nobody has ever observed a lithospheric plate. To be specific. Yes, I looked it up.

hreppar microplate

@he vibin tho how can you therefore assert that 500 years later, a man from the future will not say
"The people of 2020 are ignorant."

And how can you assert that they will not conclude a different shape for earth

Well yea, we dont know everything. But the shape of the earth is accepted as common knowledge

You’re throwing out definitions, but you’re not really making a point to me, when you can’t show me tangible verification.

Same case 500 years ago

One year in the future people will look back at 2020 and say that.