Originally Posted by
Michael Steinmetz
I really don't understand what you guys are talking about. We have photos of the earth from the moon dating all the way back to August 23, 1966 taken by the lunar orbiter. Another way to disprove the flat earth nonsense is to simply observe other planets. You can use telescopes to observe that all the other planets and stars are spheres. Why would the earth be the only flat planet in the galaxy? And what anomaly of physics could even create a flat planet? I can't believe people are still talking about this in 2016. Here is a link to the first non-stitched photo since 1972.
http://www.newsweek.com/whole-earth-...ge-1972-355915
Flat earth theorists claim things like space is actually a really big plasma TV screen above the flat earth, so they can project anything they want up there. They claim you can sail around Antarctica quickly because there is some kind of time dilation that happens at the outer rim when you move fast. They claim all photos of Earth from space are CGI, including the one you posted.
Flat Earth is a clear example of an ad-hoc hypothesis. The hallmark of ad-hoc is that you have to continually adjust and re-adjust your theory in the face of new observations and contradictory data. Giant plasma TV screens and time-dilation are examples of that kind of re-adjustment. The theory is obviously disproven by primitive methods of data collection like looking through a telescope, so more and more outlandish corollaries to the theory must be added so that it can "make sense".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypothesis
Another ad-hoc theory is Dark Matter. Dark Matter is a theory that tries to account for the fact that science does not understand gravity accurately. Their models fall apart at the galactic level, so they must invent some invisible bullshit so that their equations balance and galaxies dont fly apart. It's clearly ad-hoc. But because they don't want to consider different models for what gravity is and how it works, they are stuck with dark matter.. at least for now.
There are alternative theories of gravity though. For example this one does not require dark matter.
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
Worth noting that alternative theories of gravity call into question general relativity, which is a sacred cow in physics.
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