The Problem

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
What, don't you know that the Central Pole exerts a great magnetic field? And Einstein says that magnetic fields bend light, evergbody knows that.

I bent a light and it broke...it was shocking. 😳

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
What, don't you know that the Central Pole exerts a great magnetic field? And Einstein says that magnetic fields bend light, evergbody knows that.

Nice try, but there are so many errors in that supposition that one hardly knows where to begin.

1) Photons have no electric charge and are therefore not affected by (electro-)magnetism. While a magnetic field can bend light via an indirect quantum effect, the effect is on the photon-electron level, not on a scale which would make all the same stars in the northern hemisphere look different in the southern hemisphere.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/bending-light-with-a-magnet.282656/

2) A flat Earth would have a central or north pole, but no south pole, only an outer rim. The magnetic field of a flat planet would therefore have to be gigantic magnetic monopole. No magnetic monopole has ever been observed in nature; possible candidates for quasi-magnetic-monopoles may have been artificially produced in labs (this is disputed) on a tiny scale for short periods of time. There is no evidence of magnetic monopoles on a planetary scale. So, no go on this one.

https://phys.org/news/2016-08-mysterious-magnetic-monopole.html

3) Einstein said no such thing. It is gravity which bends light (or, more precisely, the space through which light travels).

4) "Gravitational lensing" is perhaps what a hypothetical person means as an explanation why the stars in the northern hemisphere look different to those in the southern hemisphere. Sorry, no go on this one either. Gravitational lensing makes some very distant objects visible to us which would otherwise not be so, but it does not shift their positions relative to the Earth, and so would not explain why the stars visible north of the equator are different to those visible south of it. Nor would it explain why the stars visible north of the equator appear to 'set' as one sails south. Moreover, in order to account for any visible 'setting' at all, one would have to suppose that there were at least one gravitational lens (i.e., a galaxy or other massive body) between us and every visible star in the heavens, which is improbable and for which there is no evidence.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/science/gravitational_lensing/

5) They really are different stars, not the same stars whose light has been somehow bent. This can be verified by the spectra they emit.


Ergo, the only plausible explanation why the stars in the northern hemisphere are seen to set as one sails south, and that entirely different stars and constellations are seen in the southern hemisphere, is that one is sailing on a globe.


PS, I don't suppose you really think the Earth is flat. I took your post rhetorically.

Originally posted by @great-big-stees
I bent a light and it broke...it was shocking. 😳

When did that dawn on you?

Originally posted by @whodey
So the guy researching the flat earth issue is the one
who hates education vs. those that just blindly accept it?

"researching" ... that is a bit of a stretch!

I suppose you have repeated every experiment ever made to confirm science then?

Originally posted by @moonbus
Nice try, but there are so many errors in that supposition that one hardly knows where to begin.

That's only because your mind isn't open enough, sheeple.

1) Photons have no electric charge and are therefore not affected by (electro-)magnetism.

Light is electro-magnetism, therefore it is influence by it. Everybody knows that, didn't you learn anything in high school?

2) A flat Earth would have a central or north pole, but no south pole
I never mentioned a south pole, because the "south pole" was invented by the establishment to pull the wool over your eyes. Sheeple!

The magnetic field of a flat planet would therefore have to be gigantic magnetic monopole. No magnetic monopole has ever been observed in nature

Yes, they have. All the time. But they'd be a great source of free energy, so they're being suppressed by Big Oil.

https://phys.org/

You're quoting Phyzzog now? The Buzzfeed of pop science? Sheeple...
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3) Einstein said no such thing.

Yes, he did, you're just not reading it right.

5) They really are different stars,

No they aren't, there's just one sun. Stop trying to confuse the issue.

PS, I don't suppose you really think the Earth is flat. I took your post rhetorically.

Not rhetorically enough.

You cannot argue with people who believe the world is flat. The only sane thing to do is cut them out of your life.

Nothing you say can possibly convince them. They don't believe that science is wrong because they're convinced the Earth is flat, they're convinced the Earth is flat because Authority says it's round and they're cleverer than Authority and therefore the Earth must be flat. Anything you say to convince them the Earth is flat will instead only convince them that you're one of Them. If your arguments are rational, you've fallen for Big Science's lies. If your arguments are emotional, you're just being irrational. If your arguments are observational, they just deny them and you're lying.

You cannot argue with someone this stupid. It's not even like trying to nail jelly to a wall. Arguing with an anti-vaxer is nailing jelly to a wall. Arguing with a flat-earther is nailing air to a wall, because that's all there is between their ears.

Originally posted by @wolfe63
Or perhaps a medical implant which punctually delivers a precise amount of daily caffeine. No halitosis, peptic ulcer or... ruined neckties. 😀

Lmfao

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
...You cannot argue with someone this stupid. It's not even like trying to nail jelly to a wall. Arguing with an anti-vaxer is nailing jelly to a wall. Arguing with a flat-earther is nailing air to a wall, because that's all there is between their ears.

Yes, and one should also not argue with people who are insane. It's like trying to nail air to an imaginary wall.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
A different problem (sorry to digress) but why can't I just order a coffee any more, without all this flat white, Americano nonsense.

Put caffeine in a mug. Add hot water, and hand it over.

Barbarian.

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
The Problem

When I was a child, all humans I was aware of watched either Magpie or Blue Peter.And both were wholesome. Now children have remote controls and can watch knickers and bras being modelled by keying in 049. Crime has risen and other social diseases have ensued. Slight doubts about Magpie's 60s' values now seem silly. Limited TV options afforded commonality and shared vicarious experiences. People younger than me lack something. I no longer have a default-setting fondness for a British stranger I might meet if they don't understand what I am going on about.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Yes, I have one of those already, but a man about town requires the occasional top up.

sexual innuendo???
i can never tell...