I really think everyone needs to listen to this stuff. I think flat earthers are wrong, but it’s important to know how convinced people who are wrong can be (whether you think the earth is flat or not). Lots of people just don’t even know how easy it is to be wrong.
Mass attracting mass was superseded by relativity, which is the warping and bending of space-time. It doesn't work on anything outside of a local scale, which makes it useless for space and cosmology. Relativity has the dark matter and dark energy problem, which they won't solve because it's a totally made up solution which cannot be observed or measured.
The problem with Cavendish is they have to try and isolate the effect to remove any external forces, which on such a scale would be very difficult since magnetism is a significantly stronger force than gravity claims to be.
This was actually covered quite a bit in witsit's stream last night, I've time stamped the discussion for you here - it starts with a discussion about a variant of Cavendish conducted in 2021 in Vienna:
https://youtu.be/3yYdQbKCSC8?t=4737
(Outside of that, if you think you could answer any of Austin's questions posed earlier in the stream... I would love to see it (absolutely no sarcasm on my part here).
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Yeah, I used to think so too. Then I started listening to and watching a lot of these discussions and my mind was changed. I am by no means an expert on the subject, I'm still learning. But there are far too many flaws, fallacies, and assumptions within the heliocentric model for me to continue believing in it. Even if you discard the idea of flat earth, the theories and observations that the mainstream claim and try to pass off as fact really do not align with much of what we observe, from my point of view.
I bet many open-minded people who are not married to an ideological belief would have their minds changed in the same way, if they just shut up and listen (in the nicest way).
I read once of an idea to have a reality show where some flat earthers are given like 50 bitcoin to travel around the South Pole, or go to the moon, or whatever they want. They are in charge. That seems like it’d be a win win. If they are able to produce compelling evidence, then great, if not, great, and either way one party would be wrong and that would be great entertainment.
I thought I saw some flat earthers try out shining a ray of light far away and had to adjust it down as expected by a spherical earth 🤔
Is there a test that most flat earthers agree would be death to their theory?
