/sci/ - Science & Math

Yeah, and the edge of the earth is in the Bermuda triangle.

RIGHT GUYS, RIGHT?

What happens when we reach the edge of the Earth?

I've investigated the Flat Earth theory. And I've come to the conclusion it's crap.
>no shit
>why would you waste your time researching something so stupid

What's important (and I'm personally proud of) is that instead of merely wiping off the theory, I looked into it to find at the evidence. Sadly, the evidence is by any means, quite sub-par, and easily debunked by modern theories of a spherical Earth.

Their main arguments:
1) The Earth just LOOKS round because light is bent by gravity, and all the light coming from farther away is bent to give the effect of a sphere (the same goes for seeing Earth from space)
2) If Earth is a giant sphere rotating at 7,000 mph, when you jump, why don't you land hundreds of feet away?
3) If the Earth were round, why don't people in the southern hemisphere fall off? (And a lot of claims about how gravity and centripetal force is made up)
4) And then a bunch of bible nonsense of quotes from supposedly old dead people claiming boats "sailed from the four corners of the earth", and boats "fell off the edge of the earth"

Yes, it is quite a retarded theory. But all you pricks should learn something, no matter how bizarre the claims, as long as there is SOME sort of evidence, it's worth looking at and deciding for yourself (i.e. Lloyd Pye's Intervention Theory, Tom Bearden on Scalar Waves, Edward Leedskhalnin who claimed to know the secrets of the building of the pyramids (and built the Coral Castle - and wrote several books on magnetics), John Bedini and his overunity devices, Vortex Math explaining everything about everything)

I want troll in god tier tho'. I'm starting with convincing everyone again the earth is in fact flat. BELIEVE ME FOR FREE HAMBURGERS!

/sci/ there is a question that I'm dying to know the answer to and I was hoping you could help me out.

Does shape influence gravity? From the perspective of a subject within the shape's gravitational field I mean, not like... total gravity. Is that a thing? Anyway...

Assuming a homogenous density with unchanging mass and volume, how would the gravity on an Earth sized sphere of mass change in relation to somebody standing on various points of its surface if it was deformed into the shape of a disc? A cube? A long cylinder?

Like, if a person stood on the rim of the disc shaped Earth, would they experience any change in gravitational force compared to if they were standing on the flat surface of the disc? Would they feel more gravity or less?

My automatic assumption was that they would feel more gravity on the rim of the disc but I became muddled while trying to reason it out. I mean, yeah there's a greater concentration of mass directly below their feet but a lot of it is very far away. I'm confusing myself now, please help.

Disregard how they would feel due to air pressure.

Also, there are no elephants and no turtle holding up the discworld. Heh.

>Implying there isn't a giant wall of ice surrounding the Earth so you can't fall off the edge.

If the world is actually flat, would that mean there is only one timezone, one weather and all that?