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Why is the world round....

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