Why is the world round....

[Hayabusa Rider]

and how do we know it wasn't flat before we looked?

 

[imported_Leviathan]

We guessed?

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
and how do we know it wasn't flat before we looked?

you serious ??

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[HBalzer]

Well once we had the telescope we probably looked around put 2 and 2 together and determined it was probably not flat. However, the Catholic church killed anyone who said so.

 

[Blayze]

Because if it was flat we would fall off the edge.

 

[Wallydraigle]

The world is round because it is one of Frith's droppings, which is why the grass grows so thickly on it. It is impossible to know that it wasn't flat before we looked.

 

[geno]

Isn't it weirds, centuries ago, no one traveled far enough to find the edge of the earth, Earth was an entire universe to them because they didn't know its boundaries... I wonder when we'll find the edge/boundaries of the universe that we currently know

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

One word: Gravity

 

[Anubis]

a circle is the most energy efficient shape

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Anubis
a circls is the most energy efficient shape

:thumbsup:

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Anubis
a circls is the most energy efficient shape

drugs are bad, mmkay?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis
a circls is the most energy efficient shape

drugs are bad, mmkay?

oooo noess a fing typo

run we all gonna die

:roll:

 

[AreaCode707]

It's a gravity thing. And the circ. of the earth was pretty accurately calculated by a guy who noticed that the sun shone down his well at one time and down his friend's well (miles away) at another time of day, suggestion that the earth was curved.

 

[glugglug]

The mice built it that way.

 

[bootymac]

So we can drop bullets faster than we can shoot them

 

[Otaking]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis
a circls is the most energy efficient shape

drugs are bad, mmkay?

oooo noess a fing typo

run we all gonna die

:roll:

:Q

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: geno
Isn't it weirds, centuries ago, no one traveled far enough to find the edge of the earth, Earth was an entire universe to them because they didn't know its boundaries... I wonder when we'll find the edge/boundaries of the universe that we currently know

Well, the first part of my question was entirely facitious, however there is something to the second part. It has been suggested that quantum physics demands an observer for a potential to be actualized.

The idea is that when a new volume of space is observed for the first time, it has just come into existence. There cannot be actualization of potential without observation. The act of seeing a thing the first time ever creates an event in the past which leads us to what we witness.

The earth may not have been flat before man, it may have not "existed" at all.

Weird, eh?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider

Originally posted by: geno
Isn't it weirds, centuries ago, no one traveled far enough to find the edge of the earth, Earth was an entire universe to them because they didn't know its boundaries... I wonder when we'll find the edge/boundaries of the universe that we currently know

Well, the first part of my question was entirely facitious, however there is something to the second part. It has been suggested that quantum physics demands an observer for a potential to be actualized.

The idea is that when a new volume of space is observed for the first time, it has just come into existence. There cannot be actualization of potential without observation. The act of seeing a thing the first time ever creates an event in the past which leads us to what we witness.

The earth may not have been flat before man, it may have not "existed" at all.

Weird, eh?

and.... If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a sound?