Tim Pool is joined by a panel of guests to debate whether or not the Earth is flat. Host: Tim Pool @Timcast (everywhere) Guests: Dr. Robert Sungenis | https://www.robertsungenis.com/ Alex Stein @PrimeTimeAlexStein Austin Whitsitt @Witsit Scott Ferguson @AstronomyLive @Astronomy_Live Producers: Lisa Elizabeth @LisaElizabeth (X) Kellen Leeson @KellenPDL (X)
Okay, but this is also, everyone's like, oh, it's so easy to go to Antarctica.
First of all, and Austin can elaborate further on this, you have to fly from Dallas to Santiago, Chile, then Santiago, Chile to Punta Arenas, the tip of Chile, and then you've got to take a flight from Chile, from Punta Arenas, the southernmost part of Chile, and take a four-hour flight and land on the ice in Antarctica.
So this is, we're going to, half the chat is like, you're all stupid, and the other half is like, LOL. So let's do a round of introductions for everybody before we just jump right into the debate.
Sir, would you like to start with your credentials, who you are, what do you do?
unidentified
My name is Robert St. Janus, and I've written many books, half of them on science, and one of them is called Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right.
Yeah, so I develop software for tracking rockets and satellites with off-the-shelf telescopes, film a lot of rocket launches, film a lot of satellites, ISS, all kinds of stuff.
I've measured the radius of the Earth, the distance of the Sun, the distance of Mars, the distance of various satellites.
So yeah, I mean my amateur astronomy hobby probably has some applicability, but for full declaration, like my PhD in neuroscience is irrelevant to the discussion today.
I watched a video on X, and it was a rocket launch, and the rocket gets way up and then all of a sudden it explodes, and I was told that it was the rocket hitting the firmament and blowing up, and that proves it, doesn't it?
That actually does make it challenging to a certain degree.
Obviously, you can measure these things, but...
When Google tells you men can get pregnant, it does call into question a lot of the claims they make because we're like, hold on there a minute.
But without diving into that subject, there's an interesting point about whether we trust mainstream acceptable knowledge, right?
And so...
If we go back to hundreds of years, and you'll know this better than me, but when the view was that we were a geocentric solar system or universe, that was the mainstream view, was it not?
So people generally accepted the Earth was the center of the universe.
unidentified
Well, the Greeks were divided.
Phagoras was a geocentrist.
By the time of Aristotle, the same thing, but Aristarchus of Samos was a heliocentrist, and that's where Copernicus got his model from, Aristarchus.
Copernicus didn't really do much work, you know, measuring planets and all that.
So he got it from the Greeks, but he got the same model that was built on circles.
So his model really didn't work well until Kepler came along and put them in elliptical orbits, and it worked a little better, but it still wasn't perfect.
But Copernicus basically was copying from the Greeks.
You think it's a geocentric solar system or universe?
How would you describe it?
unidentified
I do, yeah.
And with Newton, that was not allowed.
Newton had equations, F equals MA, and some other ones that only allowed a heliocentric universe.
The rest of the universe was absolute and inert.
It had no effect on our solar system.
So the way Newton figured things out was the Sun's the biggest thing, has the most gravity, that means all the planets have to go around it, including the Earth.
And that's all his system would allow because he dealt only with the solar system and forgot the rest of the universe.
I mean, so in general relativity, we can describe a reference frame in which Earth is centered and stationary, but general relativity says there is no preferred reference frame.
You can't have an absolute reference frame in general relativity.
It just doesn't work.
So, you know, you can describe things that way, but yeah, in my view, it makes sense that, you know, the Sun has the most mass in the solar system.
Sure, you can describe a reference frame where Earth is stationary, but you could equally describe one where we go around the solar system barycenter.
I'm not a heliocentrist in the sense that I think that our solar system is the center of the universe.
Obviously, and I'm sure we'll get into it, but there's a lot of talk about the cosmic microwave background radiation and And that's basically a fragment from, you know, the Big Bang where you have this leftover radiation and certain aspects of it seem to suggest that it aligns well with the ecliptic plane, which is the orbits that the planets go around the Sun.
But those alignments are not as exact as some make them out to be.
And there's also the fact that we have an annual shift in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
You can actually see a modulation of it as we go around the Sun every year.
Real quick, sorry, Austin's about to go on a very good rant and we need to let him talk, but when you say that, tilt, Tim, 23.4 degrees, subtract that from 100, what is that?
What you did was you looked at the Sun, you reified and assumed your model, you assumed the causation of the ecliptic plane was actually the Earth tilted.
That's what you did.
So what we see, so I want the audience to understand, we see the Sun move in a certain path.
They're claiming it looks tilted because the Earth is tilted and it's an illusion.
They also claim that what's called the analima, so the sun does this extended figure eight that isn't perfectly symmetrical if you time lapse it throughout the year.
They say that's because we're moving, and it makes it look like the sun is moving.
So obviously just in very simple terms, we're saying, oh, the sun is moving.
That's why we see the sun moving.
You're claiming it's an illusion.
So you actually have the burden of proof just on its face.
You're assuming the cause of the observation is the Earth is moving.
It's even worse, though.
Let's just use really simple terms.
Occam's Razor.
So if you have two different explanations for the same cause or phenomena, you're going to go with the simplest one that requires least amount of assumptions, if they're both viable.
And then if you're going to claim that there's something else that requires more assumptions, you've got to verify it.
It's actually way worse than this, though.
It's been scientifically proven with empirical measurement that the Earth is not moving.
And we've actually shown that the interferometry correlates to periodicity of the Sun, meaning that the solar motion, how light travels and interferes with itself, changes based on the time of year.
So it is empirically proven that the Earth is not moving.
So not only do we not just grant it to you, right?
Because you're just saying the model as if it's true.
unidentified
Yeah, I think he understands that.
And I want to take off from where you left off with general relativity and then go back to his point, if you don't mind.
It might take me a couple minutes.
So you admit with general relativity that the Sun can go around the Earth or the Earth can go around the Sun, right?
You can describe it that way.
Well, it has to be real for you to describe it that way.
I mean, in other words, you just can't say it's possible...
I mean, we could have one of those scenarios as the true system, correct?
No.
Why?
You can't have either scenario because it doesn't have a preferred frame of reference.
What's it?
Meaning general relativity.
General relativity doesn't allow you to have...
Okay, but here's the point I was trying to make before.
Whereas Newton would only allow a heliocentric system, general relativity allows both a geocentric and a heliocentric system.
So with the medieval science of Newton, we're never going to get a geocentric system.
But with Einstein and Mach, we're going to get it as a possibility.
So then it's just a matter of determining which one's the correct one.
No, it doesn't work that way because to suggest that there is a correct one would be to suggest that there is an absolute reference frame.
Well, look, we see the stars and the sun go around us every day, right?
One of them has to be correct.
Either the earth is moving or the sun is moving around the earth.
From a general relativistic point of view, you don't have any particular reference frame.
But from our perspective, you're saying that the reference point of how we see the stars and everything moving is the sun is the reference point.
We are going around it.
That's how we perceive the universe.
unidentified
That is a useful reference frame in a lot of circumstances.
There are some reference frames like if I'm measuring the motion of a satellite, the first reference frame I'm using is actually one that has my telescope at the center of the universe.
And if I'm predicting a solar eclipse and predicting the path of a solar eclipse, I actually use the moon as the center of the universe.
So I'm using a soleno-centric reference frame.
But that doesn't mean I believe that the moon literally is the center of the universe.
What we have now is another force involved because the universe is rotating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's going to cause centrifugal, Coriolis, and Euler forces on the solar system, and it's going to make that sun go in complete tow by the forces of the rotating universe around the fixed Earth.
We have Aries failure, stellar aberration, it doesn't change when you introduce an additional medium.
We have Mickelson-Morley, and we can get into all these, but interferometry, then Mickelson-Gell-Person, match this ideal rotation.
I'm not actually trying to scatter gun.
I want to make sure that the audience is following here.
So we have Newton, you have the idea that the sun's really huge, it has the most gravity, the planets move around it, so it's logical that the Earth would also move around.
So then Mach came along and said, wait up, Newton didn't even think about the rest of the universe.
He thought the sun was the center of the entire universe.
So when we actually take his theory even and we apply it to a rotating universe, the angular momentum of that whole universe would outweigh any effect of the sun and the earth could be in the center.
This spills over into relativity as well.
Now, I actually reject all of this.
I reject the claimed sizes.
I don't even believe in all that.
But it's misinformation.
It needs to be pointed out that even in the Newtonian and Einsteinian models, the earth could be in the center.
So what we need to do is go back to earth, look at the actual test, the empirical evidence What does the empirical evidence show?
Instead of this woo-woo, we can't know the truth, it could be anything, what does that serve us?
We did tests on the Earth that proved that the Earth is not moving.
It still can be good, because all of them are going to say what's not true, which is very telling.
unidentified
So, Aries Failure, for those who don't know, I'm sure the audience may not be familiar with this, but it involves a telescope filled with water, because light travels slower in water.
Would you agree that light travels slower in water?
Okay, so you have a water-filled telescope.
The principle behind Aries Failure, which, I mean, this experiment goes back, you know, before Einstein...
At that time, physicists believed in the ether that light was entrained in this ether and that it was called the undulating theory of light, that light was traveling through the ether, a medium.
They thought it was necessary.
So basically, you have a water-filled telescope pointing at a star.
Now, you have stellar aberration because light acts a bit like when you're running in the rain.
If you accelerate, you have to tilt your umbrella down to catch the rain.
And so starlight acts that way.
As we go around the sun, The starlight is deflected slightly by Earth's orbital motion, at least in our model, right?
And so if you point a telescope at a star, you have to correct for what we call stellar aberration, the deflection of that starlight.
Now if you fill that telescope with water, the thought was if the starlight is entrained in ether, and think of this as a medium that Earth is moving through around the solar system, then if you slow the light down, But if it's trapped in the ether, it's still going to have lateral motion in the telescope consistent with Earth's orbital motion, and that won't be affected by the water.
No, no, let me finish.
Let me finish.
So what happens in reality is you have a photon of light entering the telescope, slowed down by the water, but...
The water doesn't have any preferential way of knowing, oh, this vector towards the bottom of the telescope, I'm going to slow it down this direction, but I'm not going to slow it down relaterally.
It doesn't work like that.
But it would have, at least in theory, if ether were real and it were entrained in the ether.
The idea was it's still stuck in the ether.
It's still going to have this lateral motion caused by Earth's orbital motion.
But because ether doesn't actually exist, and that's what the result actually showed...
That photob was coming straight down the tube the same as it did without the water present.
ARIES showed no effect on stellar aberration.
The amount of stellar aberration in the water-filled telescope was the same.
But the whole reason they expected it to be different was because of ether, the idea that it was going to be entrained in ether and move laterally.
So Austin, my question to you is, if you had your water-filled telescope on Mars and you point at a star, will you see stellar aberration consistent with Mars' orbital motion, or will it be affected by water?
Let me pause real quick, so just don't forget what you were going to say.
I want to stress, one of the challenges is earlier we were mentioning Google...
The argument was Google says men can get pregnant.
Well, Google says it's not, but I will stress Wikipedia is full of lies.
And so if you look up my wiki, it claims – and this is totally irrelevant to the conversation, but it's relevant to Wikipedia.
At some point they added that I was a proponent of and sought out ivermectin, which is – Just could not be more false.
I argued against it to Joe Rogan on his own show.
How they could put in something so false and all of these editors are like, no, it's true.
Tim Pool did this.
And I'm like, watch the Rogan episode.
I told him no.
I said it doesn't work.
That, whether you agree or disagree on any of the arguments being made on Flat Earth, presents a troubling scenario where the average person cannot figure out what is to be trusted.
unidentified
So Tim, that's one of my favorite things about astronomy is anyone can look up.
There's no astronomical observation that proves heliocentrism.
It all works from a stationary Earth.
But I don't want the point to get lost.
I don't want the point to get lost.
You just went on a long time and you just said we can read in Wikipedia.
The problem with it is if what Wikipedia is showing is a lie and you can prove it by going and reading the papers and looking at Aries' actual documents, have you done that?
unidentified
I have.
And it says that it had a profound impact on the undulating theory of light because it was necessary for that lateral motion of the photon.
Okay, now I'm going to point out why you're wrong.
So you actually claimed, just so we're the audience to understand, you have to look at a star with a telescope, and to keep the star in the center of your telescope, you have to tilt it.
Because it comes in at an angle.
So the analogy he used is a good one, it's like rain.
If it's raining straight down, but you run through it, even though the rain's falling straight down, it's going to look like it's coming at an angle.
And if you run faster, the angle's going to increase, right?
So the idea is the Earth is moving around the Sun, making the star look like it's coming at an angle because of the orbital velocity of the Earth.
Now, he claimed at the beginning that's why we have stellar aberration, because of orbital velocity.
We had nothing to do with ether.
You claimed that it comes at an angle because of orbital velocity.
What he pointed out was, well, wait, if water's going to slow down the light, that's going to increase the amount of time it takes for the light to get through the telescope, it would be like speeding up in the rain.
So it should actually increase the angle.
It did not.
It has nothing to do with ether.
The fact that it may also have an implication, sure, because either light's in the medium or it's not.
The test isn't about the ether.
The test is about actually isolating the causal mechanism of stellar aberration.
So my question is, if you're claiming that it does tilt because of the orbital velocity initially, you claim that was the cause of stellar aberration, why didn't it change when you increased the amount of time it took the light to get through the telescope?
Now, real quick, can you define stellar aberration for those that don't know?
unidentified
So stellar vibration is what I was talking about with how the rain, if you're running in the rain, you've got to tilt your umbrella down.
But it could also be the wind is blowing the rain at you, and that's why you have to tilt your umbrella down.
But regardless of that, the idea is the stellar light, the light of the star, is deflected either due to our motion around the sun or if you want to believe the sun's motion and the universe's motion around us.
But it's that relative motion that's causing it to deflect.
And so depending on what time of year you look at a star, it's going to be in a very slightly different place.
It's about 20 arc seconds different depending on which time of year you're looking at the star.
That's the aberration, just to make it...
That's the basic aberration.
So that's stellar aberration in a nutshell.
Now what Austin is suggesting is that we should see a different deflection, even without ether, that we would see a different amount of deflection if we slow the light down in water before it reaches the end of the telescope.
But the problem with that is that it suggests that water would have some way of knowing that, oh, this vector towards the bottom of the telescope, I'm going to slow it down that direction, but I'm not going to have an impact on the lateral motion due to Earth moving.
No, that doesn't work that way.
It's going to slow it down, and it will still reach the bottom of the telescope in the same angle that it came into the telescope on, and that's exactly what happened.
If the Earth is moving underneath the starlight, as it goes through the water, it's going to slow down.
Now the Earth has moved further underneath the star than if it had gone through without the water, because now it's taking the starlight longer to get to you.
The Earth is going to keep supposedly moving 67,000 miles per hour.
That means it's going to have a greater angle.
There is no even mainstream academic rebuttal to this.
So your hand wave dismissal, claiming that I'm invoking the sentience of water, doesn't even make any sense.
So you've been patently wrong.
unidentified
It's not a hand wave dismissal.
And you're assuming...
See, your description of it there has an implicit assumption that because Earth keeps moving, that the light will have a greater deflection in the water...
That would imply that this inherent motion caused by Earth's motion, this stellar aberration has some way of still manifesting differentially from the downward motion of the photon down the telescope tube.
You claimed the reason it came in at an angle was the Earth was moving.
unidentified
The reason it came in at angles is because the Earth is moving, but when it hits the water, it slows down, but it slows down equally in all directions.
That means the angle through the telescope is still the same, and it still reaches the bottom of the telescope.
What makes a difference whether it's going lateral?
That's my point.
It doesn't.
Okay, so then why are you adding that in there then?
You keep saying that.
Because Austin's description implies that it's only going to slow down as far as how far vertically it's coming down.
Imagine the stars right above you.
How slow it's coming down the telescope, right?
Vertically.
But in order for it to have a different angle of deflection due to the water, it has to continue to move at the same rate laterally That it did when it entered the telescope.
But that requires ether.
Because if it doesn't, if the ether isn't there, because if the ether is not there to entrain it, then there's nothing to cause it to deflect at a different angle as it comes down the water.
It will simply slow down along its velocity vector, which in this case, in my example, is vertical.
You're claiming it causes an angle change because of the Earth moving underneath it, and then you're turning around and claiming that the Earth moving underneath it wouldn't cause an angle change.
unidentified
I'm not claiming an angle change during the water transit, though.
We can move on from this, but Tim, I want you to pull up Wernher von Braun's tombstone.
And obviously these guys are doctors, scientists, astronomers.
I'm not a scientist whatsoever, obviously.
I'm an idiot.
But this is why I believe in this stuff.
Now, if you type in Wernher von Braun, you type in his headstone, it has Psalm 19.1.
Yeah.
If you look up Psalm 19-1, and for the people that are playing at home that don't know who Wernher von Braun is, Wernher von Braun was a Nazi that we brought over during Operation Paperclip, and a lot of people call Tim a Nazi, they call me a Nazi.
But believe it or not, our space program was created by an actual Nazi.
It's funny because I hope this gets clipped and I hope Elon sees this because Elon all day long brags about how these rockets are taking off and going to the ISS or whatever.
Yet, Tim, this is a provable fact.
The farthest that NASA has ever sent a rocket is in 1969 through 1972, the Apollo moon missions that went through the Van Allen radiation belt, which, you know, that's a whole kit and caboodle.
Like, how were we able to get this film through this deadly radiation back and forth?
How did that work?
But my point is, we had rockets that could go 257,000 miles in 1969. And today, the farthest we can go is low Earth orbit, which is, what is it, 120 miles?
What is low Earth orbit?
How far?
500. Yeah, 500. I'm saying so.
Rockets in 1969 could go 257,000 miles, and now the farthest we can go is 500 miles.
It's a pretty big reduction considering it's been 60 years.
The question is, are you talking about the limitations of technology?
But we didn't have that limit of technology in 1969. I'm asking if that's what you mean because if I said I can't get to the gas station, am I talking about running there?
Am I talking about driving a car there?
Is my car broken?
Like when you say the farthest – okay, my point is this.
Did we have rockets capable of going that fast we no longer have?
Or is the technology and knowledge of how to build those rockets missing?
Well, we had that technology and we destroyed that technology.
That's according to NASA, is that we had the technology to go to the moon and we accidentally destroyed it.
And not only did we destroy the technology and all the blueprints, but we also accidentally destroyed all the telemetry data that gives us coordinates of every point that the Apollo mission was orbiting the moon or, you know, on its, you know...
Okay, first of all, I can't just say it off the top of my head, but I can tell you this much.
When it goes to the moon landing, the manpower that it took us to get to the moon, yet we get to the moon and the moon is one-sixth our Earth's atmosphere of gravity, yet the rocket power that it took to blast off from the moon was not even one-thousandth the power that it took us to leave the Earth.
Well, so let's, we'll go back a little bit, because, you know, I don't want to jump too far, but keep putting a tag on that, I don't want to miss that point.
We lose technology all the time.
It's actually like a well-known thing.
I mean, one of the greatest travesties of human history was the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Who knows what information was lost?
Probably a lot of stupid stuff was in there.
But there's probably a lot of stuff that we're like, wow, correct me if I'm wrong.
And I mean, it's literally.
Wasn't there something big about Romans had concrete that sat underwater?
I was actually, a long time ago, I was with some buddies and we were working on a laser project with crazy ideas of using refraction in the clouds to create a visible signal so that you could transmit data long range by using a high-powered infrared laser.
And at the point of refraction, you would actually be able to point a lens at it and collect really low latency data, which could transmit communications, simply by looking in the direction of where you know the laser to be.
So to the human eye, they see nothing.
There's no way to intercept a radio signal because the beam of light shot straight in the sky.
You then use a lens capable of detecting infrared and it can give you low latency data so that you can communicate over a battlefield without someone intercepting your signals or satellite communications.
And so they would use intersecting beams and they would know, okay, this is where I need to go.
That way no one knew where they were at.
Then they thought, wait, we can do this kind of in reverse and we can attack this way.
We can show the plane where to drop the bomb if we actually intersect the beams.
Once it gets there and it has a coherent signal, it'll know, oh, I dropped the bomb.
proposed to the British and they turned it down because they were like, "No, this won't work because the radius of the Earth is going to block those signals way before any tactical position." The Germans did it and the Germans did it from 400 or 500 miles away.
They intercepted these two signals and first attempt just destroyed a warehouse that was manufacturing engines and stuff.
It should have been blocked at roughly 30 miles according to the globe earth math.
And they sent it hundreds of miles and successfully blew up the building.
I'm definitely open to some type of explanation for that, because that is not physically possible.
And it has to have specific coherency.
So beams, obviously, they spread out and diverge as they go further.
But it had to have a maximum width of a few hundred yards.
It intercepted in a very precise way so that the plane could blow.
A rumor was spread that there was high carrot consumption, which improved their eyesight, and that's why they were so good at hitting targets at night when it was actually technological development.
They didn't want the Germans to know that we had.
So my point in this is...
So the challenge, obviously, for all of these conversations goes back to just like the standard philosophical, are you just trusting something you read?
And so how much of it is I did a study that could not confirm X, which is very limited data because you have to try and replicate it multiple times.
And then, you know, depending on your view of modern science, you'd want some kind of peer review.
So if you're telling a story about how the Germans did this thing, it's like, or they lied.
The challenge is that there's good reason for – so one of the questions about aliens, why does the United States claim – You know, these hearings where they're like, there are aliens here, and then you had that one guy in the 90s, I can't remember his name, but he's on Joe Rogan, who's talking about how he saw aliens.
The purpose of that is actually relatively simple.
They could be trying to convince our adversaries that we hold secret technologies that can destroy them if they can't figure out what we have.
So, for...
For the Germans to say, oh, we did this thing with radar, the US is like, but that's impossible.
We can't figure it out.
The confusion and the fear in your enemy is valuable to lie.
Sure, but if we get to the point where we all agree, if we were to agree, that that would falsify the globe, if real, now we've made fruitful progress, right?
Because then we'd be like, well, let's try to imitate this.
Now, obviously, imitating that's not going to happen, really.
It's acknowledged by even the Allies that they use this technology, and I'll even go a step further and tell you the supposed explanation as to how it happened on the globe, and this is all anyone's ever said, is diffraction.
That basically the Earth would block the beam, and then it would fill back in behind it, and it would keep doing that.
The problem is that wouldn't maintain the coherency needed to intercept the beams and...
I have never heard this before, so I'd have to investigate it.
But your point, if I can elaborate on your point, that they could have lied, it could have been this, it could have been that, and we don't know, okay?
So let's go back to this Earth-fixed or not fixed issue.
And there's another experiment that was interpreted in two different ways by many scientists, and that was the 1887 Michelson-Morley experiment.
Very simple experiment.
You probably know about it, right?
Okay, so if the Earth is moving around the Sun at about 20 miles a second, and you shoot a light beam in the direction that the Earth is moving, That light beam should be impeded by space.
At that time, they thought ether, okay?
So space is a something, it's not a nothing, because nothing does not exist.
So it has to be something.
Something's going to impede that light beam, and they could tell you by how much that light beam would be impeded.
It didn't show any resistance to the light beam, space.
Okay?
They couldn't measure anything.
They measured just a little bit, but not enough for an Earth going around the Sun.
Okay?
So the obvious interpretation of that experiment is, well, the Earth isn't moving.
That's why there wasn't any impedance of the light beam.
Okay?
Well, we can't have that because we're all Copernicans, you see.
We believe since the time of Copernicus that the earth does move around the sun, so there has to be another explanation.
This is where your lie may come in, you see.
The explanation is there is no ether, and the light beam couldn't be impeded because the ether doesn't exist.
Which is a la special relativity.
That's Einstein's special relativity in a nutshell.
Okay?
So here's another way to explain the same experiment as opposed to a fixed earth.
Which one's correct?
Okay?
So we went on for a while where, okay, Einstein has to be correct.
We all want to be Copernicans.
We don't want to kiss the feet of the Pope.
So we'll take his explanation.
Okay?
And then...
And then, ten years later, Einstein comes back and tells us, well, the special theory really doesn't work all that well because it's in a pristine environment.
You have no inertial forces, you have no ether, you have no nothing.
And that's why the light beam can go the same speed.
But what if we have a big universe where we have gravity, we have inertial forces, we have heat, we have all kinds of things that could impede that light beam?
And so guess what?
Einstein took back the ether that he had gotten rid of in the special relativity theory.
Okay?
So if you take back the ether, then how are you going to explain Michelson-Morley?
So does that mean that if it's Planck particles or whatever, there's just like an infinite, not necessarily literally infinite, but just like a ridiculously large sum of all of them within and around us all the time?
Yeah, and Tesla actually said that he believed it was a substance that was tenuous beyond conception, meaning like thinner than, so an actual homogenous medium, basically, that it's like the air is right now, only it's an additional medium, but it's so thin that it's like beyond conception.
And a fascinating thing that I love to bring up and we brought up on Tim Castile two days ago was the discovery of air as matter, the eventual discovery of air as its weight, and the eventual discovery of the composition of air that early humans didn't understand that there was actually a matter in front of them.
They thought there was nothing.
And then as the story goes, there's a couple stories.
One of them I just read the other day was that they flipped a bucket upside down and put it in water and water wouldn't go in it.
And they were like, there's something in there.
And they're like, hey...
And then it wasn't until – unless all of our understanding of science is wrong, which I say a lot, was the 1700s with – who did we look up?
He actually figured out the weight of air.
And so it's fascinating.
It's fascinating because we take so much for granted.
Like the discovery of zero is fascinating in mathematics.
Early humans didn't conceive of that in math and how it behaves and how it affected our understanding of the universe.
So – You know, just simply put to wrap that thought, there's so much we don't know that would dramatically change everything we think we know about the universe, which could happen as soon as humans discover another concept or, you know, zero is kind of fascinating because it's so obvious to us now.
It's just ingrained in us.
Yeah, zero, right?
But there were generations of civilization where they were like, huh?
And then somebody went, dude, it was an Indian guy, and he was like, look at this!
Because if it's not the smallest, then you're going to have something there between the particles that can't be nothing, it has to be something.
So now you're going to have to go back to the smallest possible particle and the smallest possible distance.
This is already known in quantum mechanics, okay?
So if everything is filled with Planck particles, Then if you have matter made up of protons, neutrons, electrons, and that can exist in a Planck particle medium, then it's going to create a vacuum.
So do you think that there is a firmament and there's no space then?
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See, now this is another issue about the firmament that we need to know, which is a lot of the theories are based on the fact that the firmament is a solid thing.
That's why you have the picture of the dome.
That's what you get in Genesis chapter 1, verses 6 to 9, that it's a solid thing.
You got one that's solid, and you got one that's ethereal.
And that's where the celestial bodies can fit in.
And if you follow the meaning of firmament, the rakia or raka, it's another derivative of it, throughout the Old Testament, you see those two meanings.
It says that gravity is the bending and warping of space.
It's the effect of the bending and warping of space-time, and that it displaces the space-time, causes a gravity well, and basically objects fall inside this well.
Back in the day, it was Newtonian, which is that matter inherently has some property that pulls things to it.
And actually, Newton said that he couldn't understand it.
It must be God doing it.
Most people won't talk about that.
He just said God must be doing it.
He threw his hands up.
He said there had to be an ether if it existed because there had to be mutual contact between the bodies and stuff like that.
But this is interesting because people will say like, hey, stupid flat earther, what's gravity, right?
But the mainstream model doesn't have a viable model for gravity.
If you look at galactic clusters, they seem to be lensing light.
And if you tally up the mass that you expect to see in those galaxies based on the amount of light that you're getting from the galaxies, it doesn't add up.
So Wikipedia, our best friend, says dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light or other electromagnetic radiation.
Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects, which cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be observed.
Now that's fascinating because that sounds to me...
I hate to say it, but it sounds like they have this theory and they go, okay, well, the theory can't explain this thing, so something must be there then, I guess.
We look at the numbers and we say two, five, or six must be in this space.
So my point is simply...
I think it – obviously the point of dark matter is that we don't know, and based on what we think about general relativity, we are plugging something in we've not yet discovered.
I had a conversation with a professor once where he—this was 20 years ago.
We were talking about string theory.
I was reading a book on string theory and dimensions, and he said something like, yeah, well, now it's M-theory, and there's another dimension they just added.
And he was like, the issue is that it seems sometimes like a lot of these guys have dedicated their whole lives to the research of this unified theory where they're trying to figure out what's going on, and to learn that 30-40 years of research may have been in the complete wrong direction would be emotionally shattering to these people.
So instead of saying maybe I'm wrong, they say add another dimension to make it work.
That implies if you get red shift from every angle you're looking at, okay, and you get no blue shifts, that means we, the observer, have to be in the center of it all.
And so the riddle is, what does a bear have to do with my house facing south?
But if you actually break it down, you're like, how could your walls only face south?
You're at the North Pole.
The only bear that you're going to find up there, I don't even know if polar bears are at the North Pole, but whatever.
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Okay, so let me just put the finishing touch on this, the icing on the cake.
So the guy, he says...
We expand the balloon.
You see redshift.
We don't have any more Earth in the center.
Problem solved.
Okay?
So Father Lemaitre comes along, Belgian priest, Catholic, and says, okay, let's do this.
Let's reverse the expansion and make it go down to what happened at the beginning.
And you can't define what happened at the beginning.
That's why they call it singularity.
But they're figuring it took 13.78 billion years for it to start here, to start here, and then expand to the point where we see redshift everywhere, you see?
And that's how you get out of an Earth-centered universe, is by rearranging the universe into a Rymanian two-dimensional balloon instead of a Euclidean balloon.
I think the argument they make is that the universe is expanding, and we're not in the center of it, but it's still expanding around us.
Thus, you will see a redshift regardless.
So the way you're describing it is if you're on this balloon, even if we were on the leftmost surface of it, as it's expanding, we're going to see things even right next to us redshifting as they're moving away from us.
So now we're introducing a medium, and maybe even another medium.
You said you didn't believe it.
Let's also introduce some plasma, because it's been proven in a lab, unlike your belief of redshift, that photons, quote-unquote, which I won't get into that, they redshift through plasma.
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So you don't think you can replicate redshift?
You don't think that you can get Doppler shift on a spacecraft traveling out from the Earth?
Yeah, because they just had to assume that, right?
Because it had greater redshift.
But like Halton Arp, this is a perfect example of what happens.
People call this science.
It's basically a cult though.
Halton Arp was like revered almost, like completely respected astronomer, like world renowned, like had things named after him.
And he comes out pointing out that redshift doesn't work, and he ends up writing a second follow-up called Seeing Red, which is a play on how he's getting angry because he's being blacklisted.
He gets blacklisted.
He gets the ability, the right to actually use observatory telescopes revoked from him because he comes out and speaks out against redshift.
Would some argue then that you are incentivized to push theories towards the idea of a geocentric universe?
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I would never do that.
What I'm trying to say is I would go by the evidence.
If the evidence supports that theory, we went through Michelson-Morley, we went through Aerie, we went through the cosmic microwave background radiation, we went through Hubble's Big Bang universe, where that came from.
That's enough for me to say I don't have a bias because the evidence supports what I just said.
Could it be said that people have a bias against the idea of intelligent design, therefore exclude the possibility of geocentrism?
Because that is very clearly what is happening.
Stephen Hawking literally says...
I can't disprove geocentrism.
I reject it on grounds of modesty.
Hubble calls it intolerable and horrific.
Lawrence Krauss says it's coming back to haunt us.
The Copernic principle is coming back to haunt us in his film.
There is a bias against intelligent design similar to how modern academia is overwhelmingly drowning in liberalism.
Well, modern academia in terms of science is drowning in atheism.
And it actually implements philosophical bias at this point.
And they can't have a creator.
Well, I would say that even in the mainstream model, you still need a creator, right?
But it doesn't matter.
The point is, like, you see that every atheist I've ever talked to, I said, so if the Earth were in the center, let's say hypothetically, do you agree that it had to be put there?
None of them deny that it drastically increases the chances of intelligent design at the least, right?
Because if it's in the center of the whole universe...
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And in Scientific American, it says 90% of the major scientists are atheists.
I just want to say real quick, you know, there's this expanded flat earth map that makes me wish the flat earth stuff was real.
You've seen this, I imagine, right?
The world beyond the ice wall.
The idea being that the world as we know it is surrounded by this wall of ice, but outside of it are advanced civilizations.
And then there's another ring, and I'm like...
That'd be so cool.
So there's Odin, the walls of Asgard, the scorched wastes, Osiris, Nemo, Lemuria, and it's like we are trapped in this zoo around this ice ring and if only we could penetrate it, we could get to the great land of Aten.
He was like the first explorer to really explore it.
And he said that there's enough resources in Antarctica to supply the whole entire world.
And so there is stuff in Antarctica that doesn't make sense that we don't know about.
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Major problem for Flat Earth, though, if you look at that map, Tim, you've got South America pointing one way, you've got Australia pointing another way.
How are they both able to see the South Celestial Pole looking south?
There's a model that claims to know exactly what the Earth is, and then there's a group of people who heard the insanity that people think it's flat or whatever.
So they just went and challenged it and looked into it, and they've suspended belief of the globe model.
You know, this definitive flat Earth model thing is not...
Popular within people who would say that they are flat earthers.
We don't know.
We can't even privately explore it, right?
The empirical measurement shows that the earth is not curving at the rate that they say, and we don't need Chicago.
Well, of course, but the point is that they have to run it through corrections to get the final longitude output, which shouldn't happen.
And this is, again, this is what I want to point out, though.
There are physical tests that show that the Earth's not curving at the rate that they say that it is.
So the Earth is measured flat.
I wonder if we could all agree on this.
That flat Earth is actually the default position, because it's always flipped around, right?
Well, the horizon's horizontal.
When we build things in civil engineering, we actually use plane survey.
We do it flat.
We connect horizontal.
So bridges, runways, railways, canals, when we fly planes, all aviation, we have to treat the Earth like it's flat.
Sea level, elevation is a distance above that.
Whenever we actually got the latitude system, we took elevation angles to Polaris from a flat horizontal baseline that extended all the way to the zenith.
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That doesn't improve.
Trilateration only works on the globe, though.
You can only get your position from the globe.
You have to actually know the orbits of the satellites.
And so that would imply that after we flew south beyond the visual, the ability to identify any landmass, the plane then hooked right.
So it implies that when I flew from New York to Los Angeles to New Zealand, and I got these couple, maybe these maps are inaccurate representations of what flight authors believe, but if I left from Los Angeles and we started flying south, which we did, as soon as we left the visual area so that no one on the plane could identify as soon as we left the visual area so that no one on the plane could identify it, the plane then turns right so it flies straight down and then hooks right instead I don't believe that happened.
Well, planes are always making corrections based on cardinal directions, so you're not going to be able to tell on a plane, but I can tell that we didn't fly west or north, and so when we departed, we were flying south.
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If you left South America and went to New Zealand, you could go there on a globe map straight to New Zealand.
If you turn that into a flat earth map, the flat earth map would require you to dip down to make a semicircle and then go up to New Zealand.
Well, yeah, there are many paths that make more sense on, like, say, the azimuthal projection than the globe, and they claim all kinds of things.
They need to stop for gas or whatever.
And I'll make it very clear, actually, I don't claim definitive projections.
If we've been misled to about the nature of the Earth, which I think the evidence is overwhelming that we have been.
It would be very naive to think that we have a perfect depiction of the very thing that we were misled about.
Of course we don't.
Now, in the north, 90% of the world population here, we have a better grasp of it, but it's just a projection thing.
And bringing up the satellite thing, that's kind of like a misnomer that satellites can't exist on a flat earth.
Actually, satellites, for one, disprove heliocentrism.
Because they actually have to account for inertial forces.
They account for centrifugal forces, which are considered fictitious and pseudoforces in your paradigm.
They can't exist.
So if there are actually satellites being put up there, they're accounting for the angular momentum of a rotating universe around a stationary Earth with inertial forces, centrifugal, coriolis, and Euler forces.
Those can exist in your paradigm.
They don't exist in Newtonian mechanics.
Those are forces external to Newtonian mechanics.
And they don't exist in Einstein.
So just point that out.
Let's Satellites are actually, I love them.
This idea that I'm scared of satellites.
Well, I see Starlinks.
I watch mini-launches.
I don't have a problem with it.
I have a Starlink.
You know, I haven't set up the internet, but I have one.
The physics and equations say they're using the spinning universe.
That's what is factually in the equations.
It says that it uses centrifugal force.
It's like if you had a ball tied to a rope and you spin it, right?
It's going to keep going in a circle because you're pulling it, but the ball has a tendency to move out away from you.
It's going to keep going around because you're pulling it.
That's called centrifugal force.
They have to account for this and a real Coriolis force, which is like an inward centripetal force, so a radially inward force, for the satellite equations.
According to the helocentric model, there is no such thing.
The way that they get the distance is they actually use, of course, the equation for speed, and they assume the medium, the propagation rate of light, and they get how long it takes the duration of signal to get there, right?
And then they plug it into the assumption of the speed of light relative to the vacuum, and then they're going to supposedly get their distance.
I think the easiest way to understand the firmament is for anybody who's ever played World of Warcraft, and you try and go too far south, and your character just keeps walking into what's in the wall.
Well, I mean, I would say that everything for density and buoyancy is a major part of it, because it's all just pressure mediating relative to its medium, right?
So ping pong, golf ball, but I would say, and this is what I say, I don't speak for anyone else, that everything's electric.
And so everything that exists is electrostatic, literally everything that exists.
There's not one exception.
Everything's electric.
And that's 10 to the 36 power stronger than gravity's even claimed to be on the smallest scale.
Well, I do believe that that's a major variable, is that there's tons of electromagnetic radiation coming from the sky, basically coming down to the Earth.
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That implies to me that it's stronger up there than it is down here.
They have a net neutral charge, so they're actually, in your paradigm, I don't even believe in this, but they're comprised of quarks.
Well, I don't believe in subatomic pseudoscientific particles, it doesn't matter.
You're laughing, but I'm about to show you that you don't understand it, that obviously it's made of quarks, and they're made of elementary charges or fractional elementary charges, so they are fundamentally electric.
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Neutrons are electrically neutral, though, so why do they not float?
Because, and this is your model of neutrons in that they're material.
All material is electrostatic.
And you try to bring up neutrons, and that's what anyone can ever bring up, because they think it has no charge.
You're wrong.
It actually does have charge.
Everything does.
Everything's electric.
That's the true unified theory.
They can't invoke this, though, because it's going to start to have ether and geocentrism pop back in.
But the point is...
All molecular and intermolecular attractive forces are electrostatic in nature.
What that means is all molecules in the world that are held together in any piece of matter, you name it, rubber, sand, glass, wood, name anything in the world, it's held together by electrostatics.
Because you're actually asking me to explain what causes weight.
When you ask me about gravity, you have a different idea that everyone's antipodal and omnidirectional and there needs to be a force pulling me on a sphere that's flying around the sun.
I don't believe in that.
I'm just going to state the facts that there's weight and what is it?
It's mass times quote-unquote gravity, right?
Little g.
That's how fast things fall.
So what is mass?
It's volume times density.
That's what it is.
So then what is density?
Density is the compactness of matter.
Right?
So what's the cause of density?
Whatever's holding the matter together with a certain compactness, we know that is electrostatics.
Even when you put Faraday material in between the balls in a Faraday cage and ground the entire system, it still actually has electromagnetic variables that are affecting the balls.
This is well known.
And then Cavendish actually...
Right?
Didn't even account for electrostatics at all.
Supposedly ran across his yard with a telescope and saw it kind of jiggle a little bit, and then knew the density and weight of Earth by assuming and reifying the sphere.
All this comes to is people wanted the Earth to be a sphere.
They presupposed it.
They built a model around it based on what they saw.
Then they wanted the Earth to be a sphere that's moving around the Sun, and they built a model around it.
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If it's true that the satellite can be at a 22,000 miles, I know you don't believe that, but could it take a picture of the Earth and show that it Absolutely.
Okay, the 500-mile satellites, most of them are about 500 miles above the Earth.
They're going around the Earth at a pretty rapid clip, and they're taking pictures of the Earth.
Now, what I've heard the Flat Earthers say is that First of all, there's no satellites, so there's no pictures taken.
And then when NASA comes back with the pictures, the pictures are a little distorted because the satellite, being only 500 miles up, can't take a picture of the whole Earth, obviously.
It can only take a picture of a small section.
And then it moves on, and it takes a picture of another section.
And it moves on, takes a picture of another section.
And then it brings all these sections back.
And you have to put them all together.
And that's hard to do.
Why?
Because you're making pictures of a circle.
And if you have circles that you're taking pictures of, you're not going to have square pictures, you're going to have peels, like an orange peel.
And then you got to put all these peels together.
And when you do, Flat earthers say, oh, well, you're manipulating the pictures because— Well, you are manipulating.
Well, because they want to build a space station on the moon so that they can deposit materials, create rockets, and then use the moon as a launching point for Mars.
I don't know if Elon's actually planning on doing that, but he's saying...
Well, he tweeted something how they even need a rocket that can refill in its path to the moon.
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I mean, that's the mode of operations for Starship, right, is the whole idea is you're launching a very large rocket, and when it gets into orbit, it's pretty much empty.
It pretty much doesn't have much fuel, maybe just enough for landing, which is what they've been testing.
But it doesn't have enough fuel to go all the way to the moon, right?
So the idea is then you launch another one and it brings up a little extra fuel.
You do this over and over again and fill it up in orbit.
I could actually do that experiment on this table and then show you the math of what size sphere this table is.
You know, because you have different angles, you assume spherical trigonometry.
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Can I ask you a question about the stars, constellations?
Yeah.
Okay, so in the globe Earth, you have the northern constellations headed by Polaris on the top, the North Star, which is the tail of the Big Dipper, okay?
Yeah.
And you got some other constellations, the Bear and Cassiopeia and all that around.
And then on the southern, you have, near the South Pole, you have Octans, Mesmos, several other constellations there.
Because the way we actually made these measurements is we actually looked at Polaris, and we took an elevation angle to Polaris, and we had a horizontal baseline that goes all the way to the zenith underneath Polaris.
Now, on a globe, obviously, you can't extend a horizontal baseline hundreds of miles.
And then what we did was we went back a little further, the angle changes...
Again, flat Earth measurement.
The Earth measures flat.
To even make the globe model, you had to make flat Earth measurements to get the latitude system.
So basically, the perspective causes the star to drop down, just like the streetlights, and you keep on making those angle measurements.
What they then did was take those angle measurements that change based on your distance, and they put it into a spherical coordinate system.
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Oh, wait a minute.
If the stars come out at night, all the stars come out at night at once.
Well, the stars are spinning, and as they come over top of you in your south, which they're actually more stretched out than in the north, and you can actually see them from a greater distance away than in the north, which is a major problem.
I mean, you can see more constellations from a greater distance in the north and the south, which should be symmetrical.
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There should be someplace on your disk where I can see octanes.
Yeah, what is known is that something like 90% of the world's population is in daylight, and they kind of stretch it based on astronomical twilight.
But if you actually look at the projection of the Earth, if we look at the globe model, right, for those people at where they're located to also be in light and not just astronomical twilight, then the light has to actually cover more than half the ball.
So you're going to have to claim the light bends around it.
Which, don't worry, people have no problem claiming it.
They claim whatever they need to.
They'll claim that the light will bend all the way around the ball if they need to whenever I see mountains from hundreds of miles away.
The light just bends around the globe.
But that is what he's talking about.
There's two different portions, right?
The 90% number is technically wrong if you present it as if it's physically impossible.
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Speaking of that, I wanted to answer your question about Michigan.
Okay.
So Joshua Nowicki, you familiar with him?
Yeah, of course.
He's the guy that takes the pictures?
Yeah.
All right.
So I have a big section about that in the book here.
We're not actually looking at it, we're looking at it.
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Mirage, illusion, whatever.
The reason you're seeing Chicago skyline is because the light beam is being curved by the refraction due to the temperature difference between the water and the air.
Actually, the boat doesn't just get lifted because the water would have to get lifted too, right?
Because there's light coming off the water.
It's actually that there's like a reflective inferior situation that happens.
Fata Morgana.
It actually reflects down, so it creates a mirror effect, so it makes it look like it's up in the sky, but it's actually not.
I don't dispute optical effects.
What I do dispute is just assuming that the sphere is a certain size, therefore it must be in this certain amount, because I went to that Chicago location, and there were wildfires in the West, coincidentally, so I couldn't see anything.
You couldn't even see a mile.
But I talked to all the locals.
They said you see it throughout the year.
They said it's very frequent, certainly at sunset, that you see Chicago.
So it isn't just those couple months or anything.
It happens regularly.
And then there is an observation that you can predict years in advance every year, two days a year.
I think it's in September and February.
In Kanegu, right, in France, you can see the Kanegu Mountains from a distance that should be impossible just using geometry on a globe.
And based on that time of year, the sun sets behind the mountains and creates a silhouette.
And you can guarantee, see those mountains, line of sight, directly in front of you on that specific day.
You can book your flight right now, unless it's like crazy.
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Yeah, but you know what?
He has to assume that there's no refraction for that.
Like, you can prove the rate at which it attenuates based on the actual medium, based on the turbulence, the turbidity, you know, and the actual density of the medium.
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Okay, so you have third-party factors affecting how the light comes into your I-beam.
Because we can make observations consistently, predict them in the future from hundreds of miles away, where the mountain should be miles at times, up to two miles below Earth curvature.
I can book a flight.
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How could you prove that if light's attenuated and it bends?
No, no, not when properly defined what refraction means.
But to every time to say, I know this amount of refraction is happening without looking at the variables and without actually making the measurements of the temperature gradients, the density gradients, and just saying it must be curving this amount because my presupposed sphere...
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We don't say that, as a matter of fact.
As a matter of fact, if you look at the Chicago skyline photos, they're all different.
Some show buildings coming higher up out of the water.
Some show buildings that are thinner than they really are.
Some show more color.
Others are gray.
Every time you take a picture of the Chicago sideline, it's different.
Why?
Because you get different attenuation, you get different refraction, all kinds of things are different every single day.
Sure, but when it's clearer outside, we see further.
Okay, that's fine.
Yeah, but you have to claim when it's clearer outside, that's when there's the most refraction, because when it's clearer outside, we're seeing the furthest clearer outside.
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It has nothing to do with how much the lights refract.
We see the horizon goes up and down, moves all over.
We can see from 100 miles away.
Consistently, I can shoot lasers over frozen lakes, different colors, different heights.
Even if they're different distances, they'll stay the same height over frozen lakes.
I can see specular reflections over great distances.
If the surface was convex or concave, you wouldn't see that.
All the evidence shows, and just saying the word refraction isn't a get-out-of-gel card, of all the physical evidence that consistently shows we can see way beyond the curve.
You have to prove there's a physical hill in front of me blocking things, and there's simply not.
I can shoot radar through it.
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So I've witnessed a Falcon 9 landing on the drone ship.
You know how they land on the boat in the water?
Just after they were doing a dragon test and they accidentally blew up one of their dragon capsules, they couldn't land at the landing zone because they had debris all over it.
So they brought the drone ship in real close to shore, 17.8 miles offshore.
So I was able to witness this Falcon 9 landing on the drone ship.
The engines are very bright, you know, as this thing's landing.
And I'm watching it obscured by the horizon as it's landing 17.8 miles offshore.
The bottom two-thirds of the rocket were blocked.
According to the Globe, that's what I should have seen with refraction accounted for.
So yes, refraction's a part of it.
Also, it had a nice specular highlight across the Atlantic Ocean coming up to me that was very visible.
So if it's not curved, why can I see a specular highlight?
And then if it's not curved, why is the bottom two-thirds of the rocket blocked after it lands?
So you made a false claim about the specular reflection that only works on a flat surface because you would get a diffused reflection if it's convex and concave.
But the horizon's apparent, it rises optically, and the most dense part of the Atmos is the bottom.
The most dense.
So that's going to block the most things from the bottom.
Now, you said you accounted for refraction.
You did not measure the density and temperature and then put it in a refractive equation and determine how much should be missing.
What you did was notice that it didn't match the globe.
Then you had to add refraction because you saw too much of the rocket issue.
It should have been more blocked.
You assumed, oh, it must be lifted up behind the curve, and it's actually an illusion.
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No, I recorded what the temperature was that day.
Anyway, so the bottom two-thirds of the rocket was blocked, and the bottom part of the rocket's where all the flame is.
That's the hottest, brightest part of it.
So why am I able to see this dim little part at the top, but not the bright part of the flame at the bottom?
And I'm getting specular highlights and reflections off the water that's supposedly flat, yet it's blocking the two-third bottom part of the rocket.
Last thing I want to ask you, Wits, before we wrap up, though...
I don't make any claims as to the size, but I will say you can prove this.
Sometimes the sun disappears above the horizon, and even when it disappears above the horizon at sunset, it has a perfect horizontal line cutting off the bottom of it.
So how does that work?
If it's the curve of the Earth, right?
But it's not.
It's because there are horizontal layers of Atmos.
The Sun moves beyond it.
And so, you know, all the evidence shows the Earth is round.
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Will you be willing to admit that the Earth is round if you go to Antarctica and it looks round?
Yeah, so I think the conversation is way more in-depth than people realize, and I would just say, look into it.
There's a philosophical bias to this idea that the Earth is special and in the center.
It has philosophical implications, and...
You know, just don't shy away from looking into it because people will mock and ridicule you.
The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is stationary, thus in the center.
And I would say it's overwhelming that it's actually a topographical plane.
Just look into it to each their own.
And science is not about dogma, right?
That's the death of knowledge.
So you should be able to have, like, an intellectual discussion, disagreements without freaking out.
And yeah, you can find me, WitsItGetsIt, on all platforms or witsit.tv.
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All right.
So I want to thank Witsit for inviting me to this debate.
I had a good time.
Thanks, Tim, for hosting this.
You can find me on YouTube, Astronomy Live.
Like I said, I do a lot of work developing rocket tracking software, satellite tracking software.
I actually have to account for stellar aberration in doing that stuff too, which is kind of fun.
So it's been great for me to sort of engage with ideas that I don't necessarily hold but to be able to go out there and collect evidence yourself.
And that's one of the things that I love about astronomy so much is that it's so accessible and anyone can get involved and do it.
You don't need a big expansive telescope to get started.
And you can go out and investigate these things yourself and take your own measurements because, I mean, yeah, I now – I'm happy and proud to be able to say that I've measured the size of the Earth myself.
I've measured the distance of the Sun myself.
And these are all things that anyone can do.
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
I'm not a professional astronomer.
I'm just an amateur astronomer.
I'm just a neuroscientist who loves playing astronomer at night.