Re: did this group die?

Andrews <andrews@spam.net> wrote:

John Hill wrote on Fri, 1 Nov 2024 07:56:58 -0000 (UTC) :
 

Who cares about the truth?

 
"The Earth is flat".
"No, it not for the following reasons”K".
"It's obviously flat, because”K".

 
Uneducated people readily & strongly believe that gravity is a force.
Right?
 
But wait... Einstein hypothesized that it's not a force.
And even Newton thought that the action at a distance was preposterous.
 

Doesn't make any difference to its sphericity.

 
I live in mountainous boonies above the Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay
where, since I'm an octogenarian, I seem to fall down a lot lately.
 
So I studied why gravity is so immensely powerful given Einstein said it
wasn't a force at all but the earth expanding outward at 9.8m/s/s and
curving spacetime rushing inward at 11km/s - perfectly balancing out such
that the earth *becomes* a sphere (almost symmetric in sphericity).
 

As a research physicist by training, profession and inclination I needed to
read no further. I now know that I can safely disregard anything you write.
But I’m in awe of your inventive abilities.

But as a nonagenarian I do understand about falling down! So far I have
been lucky and bounced. Walk carefully and avoid turning round on the spot.

Old John.

--
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.