This is a follow-up to my post How we can know the earth is a ball without relying on modern science or traveling long distances?. It is well-known and easily observable by the naked eye (even by a single individual if they use modern travel) that the stars appear to rotate counterclockwise in the Northern…
Tag: astronomy
A casual intro to topics in relativity
Special relativity is a theory of motion developed primarily by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century. Its precursor was Galilean relativity, which basically states that velocities are relative. One of the key features special relativity is the speed of light c being a constant. This means its speed is not relative, and this has…
How we can know the earth is a ball without relying on modern science or traveling long distances?
Flat earth conspiracy theorists have become a loud (if not very large) group since the turn of the millennium. While there are many specific arguments for a flat earth, which are not worth debunking here, all such arguments rely on an underlying principle that one’s senses are trustworthy and we should believe that things are…
thoughts on mind 