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Cosmology & Perception
Can You Prove Earth Is Round? Tamara Sheville's Level Plane Poems
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Already a member? Log inCan you actually prove the Earth is a rotating globe? Before recording this episode, I tried to falsify Flat Earth and find the strongest case for the conventional globe model, and couldn't. Tamara Sheville joins InnerVerse to put the globe on trial through a rapid-fire examination of curvature, level water, horizons, Antarctica, long-distance visibility, Polaris, atmospheric pressure, vacuum experiments, Foucault's pendulum, Earth rotation, gravity, planetary observations, and the classic disappearing-ship argument. This isn't built around one supposed “proof.” The question is: what happens when the assumptions behind the globe are examined one after another against measurement, observation and experiment.
Tamara Sheville joins InnerVerse to put the globe on trial through a rapid-fire examination of curvature, level water, horizons, Antarctica, long-distance visibility, Polaris, atmospheric pressure, vacuum experiments, Foucault's pendulum, Earth rotation, gravity, planetary observations, and the classic disappearing-ship argument.