The earth is round(a circle). But the Earth is flat.How is that???
2007-01-14 15:05:11 · 16 answers · asked by gurly_gurl230 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, earth is not flat.
The earth is shaped not as a sphere but as an oblate ellipsoid or geoid (which simply means "earth shaped.") The earth is widest at the equator due to gravity and rotation. The earth is 24,901.55 miles around at the equator and 24,859.82 miles between the North and South Poles. The difference between the two is 41.73 miles, so the earth is 41.73 miles wider than it is tall.
(Geodesy is the science that studies the shape and size of the Earth. As discussed in Voyagers, the shape of the earth was long known to be round. Aristotle and Pythagoras both argued that the earth was a sphere from the curved shadow it cast during lunar eclipses. About two thousand years later, Sir Isaac Newton suggested that the earth was not a perfect sphere, but rather somewhat flattened at its poles.
From mathematical considerations of the combined gravitational and centrifugal forces which the earth experiences, Newton computed that the Earth's shape should be an oblate spheroid, a solid formed when an ellipse is rotated about its axis (see Figure 14). Expeditions to Peru in 1735 and to Lapland in 1736 confirmed this theory. The difference in axes is about 1 part in 300. This means the earth's equatorial diameter is 7,926 miles, while its polar diameter is 7,900 miles.
Although the difference between equatorial and polar diameters is only 26 miles, the oblate shape of the earth complicates geographical matters. )
2007-01-14 15:32:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
The Bible talks about the earth being a circle like a disk and it also says it is well fastened and immoveable yet science claims we are spinning around at mach 1. If I were God I would make it flat. It does not feel like it is moving, so people want to tell us gravity. But who can truly explain what gravity is?
2016-09-14 14:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by William 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No the earth is not flat. I just kinda looks that way when you are on the surface of the earth, because it is so large. It, because of gravity is round. When the earth was forming from debris around the sun a few billion years ago, the particles came together because each minute particle had gravity. as more and more particles come together, the increasing mass of the combined particles increases the gravity and that pulls all the particles closer together and naturally forms a ball. Thus the earth is not flat it is a huge ball about 26000 miles around.!!!
2007-01-14 15:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by bill n 1 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Actually, if you have ever been on the ocean or another large body of water you can see the curvature of the earth. Look out at a boat on the ocean as it moves away from you. Notice that it moves further up onto the horizon as it becomes more distant. It should be on top of the horizon at a little over a couple miles away. Past that point the boat will disappear over the horizon like it was going over a hill.
2007-01-14 15:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by Scott S 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
as far as the evidence available suggests there is a growing number of explanations available if you look that we are on a flat earth,
all the images we have from NASA are CGI there is no video footage of a rotating globe or any photo's of the earth from any distance away from this earth to prove a globe or sphere exists.
2016-03-16 06:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by Akg 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
the earth is sphere at long distance but at the hieght compares to the earth we see it as a flat surface that is why in the 1400 people thought the earth was flat and that you could fall off
2007-01-14 18:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by Dragonfire445644 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes. The earth is flat. To prove it, all you need is your own eyes.
Here are also 200 proofs in a video to explain. All undebunkable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5i_iDyUTCg
Why do you think there's a sudden interest in the flat earth topic? People are actually opening their eyes.
The earth photos are not real, but CGI, and they admit that.
2017-04-12 16:20:01 · answer #7 · answered by Andrei 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the earth is a very large sphere, the surface seems to be flat for us small humans. As you leave the earth, you notice that the earth is very large and we are very small.
2007-01-14 15:14:07 · answer #8 · answered by A.R 2 · 3⤊ 5⤋
No, it is a sphere (round, 3d circle), it only appears flat over an area several dozen miles across.
2016-09-13 11:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Gabe 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a sphere. From your perspective on Earth, it appears flat, but above from satellites you'll see that it is spherical.
2007-01-14 15:09:10 · answer #10 · answered by --ceej. 2 · 6⤊ 5⤋