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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by dyqik » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:26 pm

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An infinite flat plate is easy (the field is constant), and the field along the axis of a circular disc is also doable (I do it for the electric field in my first year lecture course). Very close to the disc the field is constant like an infinite plane, very far from the disc the field is 1/r^2 like a point source.

The field of a circular disc off-axis for intermediate distances would be a whole lot more difficult.
Not actually difficult numerically, though. My physical optics simulations do that all the time.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Matatouille » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:28 pm

Yeah but gravity doesn't exist. The earth is just constantly accelerating upwards, hence the perpendicular "gravity" in all locations. You arrogant science types know nothing.

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Post by rockdoctor » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:37 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_of_Gravity

Great sci-fi story about a journey across a planet with high spin, causing it to flatten into a disk. Low gravity at the start, out at the rim, increasing as they travel towards the pole.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by lpm » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:44 pm

Matatouille wrote:
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Yeah but gravity doesn't exist. The earth is just constantly accelerating upwards, hence the perpendicular "gravity" in all locations. You arrogant science types know nothing.
How long has it been accelerating upwards? 4.5 billion years? Must be going pretty fast by now. Like a million miles an hour or something?
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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Matatouille » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:48 pm

lpm wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:44 pm
Matatouille wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:28 pm
Yeah but gravity doesn't exist. The earth is just constantly accelerating upwards, hence the perpendicular "gravity" in all locations. You arrogant science types know nothing.
How long has it been accelerating upwards? 4.5 billion years? Must be going pretty fast by now. Like a million miles an hour or something?
So you'd think, but science knows nothing.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by tenchboy » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:54 pm

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by dyqik » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:08 pm

lpm wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:44 pm
Matatouille wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:28 pm
Yeah but gravity doesn't exist. The earth is just constantly accelerating upwards, hence the perpendicular "gravity" in all locations. You arrogant science types know nothing.
How long has it been accelerating upwards? 4.5 billion years? Must be going pretty fast by now. Like a million miles an hour or something?
The change in red shift of stars and quasars would be pretty apparent, as well. What with having to make special relativity corrections within a year of accelerating at 9.8 m/s²

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Gfamily » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:18 pm

dyqik wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:08 pm
lpm wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:44 pm
Matatouille wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:28 pm
Yeah but gravity doesn't exist. The earth is just constantly accelerating upwards, hence the perpendicular "gravity" in all locations. You arrogant science types know nothing.
How long has it been accelerating upwards? 4.5 billion years? Must be going pretty fast by now. Like a million miles an hour or something?
The change in red shift of stars and quasars would be pretty apparent, as well. What with having to make special relativity corrections within a year of accelerating at 9.8 m/s²
Ah, but the rest of the universe is accelerating with us too.
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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by dyqik » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:25 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:18 pm
dyqik wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:08 pm
lpm wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:44 pm

How long has it been accelerating upwards? 4.5 billion years? Must be going pretty fast by now. Like a million miles an hour or something?
The change in red shift of stars and quasars would be pretty apparent, as well. What with having to make special relativity corrections within a year of accelerating at 9.8 m/s²
Ah, but the rest of the universe is accelerating with us too.
Something like Mach's principle then probably kicks in, suggesting that there'd be no inertial effects from such an acceleration, and hence no gravity.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Grumble » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:27 pm

Wtf are you on about? There aren’t any other stars, it’s just a dome above us with some lights.

Genuinely this is a flat earther thing.
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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by dyqik » Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:21 pm

Grumble wrote:
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Wtf are you on about? There aren’t any other stars, it’s just a dome above us with some lights.

Genuinely this is a flat earther thing.
Yeah, I know.

But then they have to explain where the spaceships and the signals emitted by radars go.

Also, why does satellite TV work.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by bolo » Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:22 pm

dyqik wrote:
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But then they have to explain ...
Only if they're playing by (y)our rules. Which they're not.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by murmur » Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:14 pm

What we really, really, really need is for Theorist to come and explain it all for us...Or one of those berks who drop into ISF to explain EVERYTHING!!!!!11111111111111!!!!!
It's so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by jimbob » Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:31 pm

Grumble wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:27 pm
Wtf are you on about? There aren’t any other stars, it’s just a dome above us with some lights.

Genuinely this is a flat earther thing.
I like the Concave hollow Earth theory which is also apparently a thing
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Tessa K » Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:29 am

murmur wrote:
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What we really, really, really need is for Theorist to come and explain it all for us...Or one of those berks who drop into ISF to explain EVERYTHING!!!!!11111111111111!!!!!
It must be nice knowing that you know something the rest of us poor benighted fools can't or won't accept. I so wish that magic was real. And unicorns. But not zombies, they're just annoying.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Iron Magpie » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:57 pm

There's nothing wrong with zombies especially if they are our zombies. what we don't want is all them foreign zombies...

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Iron Magpie » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:58 pm

ahh damn I thought this was the Brexit thread...

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by tom p » Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:32 pm

tenchboy wrote:
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Having 100 feet?

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Gentleman Jim » Fri Feb 28, 2020 3:51 pm

tom p wrote:
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tenchboy wrote:
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Having 100 feet?

Continental hours, Tom?
Finishing at midday on a Friday? :)
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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by Andysnat » Sat Mar 07, 2020 6:57 pm

Think of it as Evolution in action.

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Re: Flat earther dies trying to prove it

Post by tom p » Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:01 pm

Andy? Is that you?
I was wondering how you were doing?
How are you mate. Good to see you back.
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