If the earth is flat, how thick is it?
Which side are we on — heads or tails?
The thickness has to be more than 65,000 feet (distance from top of Everest to bottom of the Marianas Trench.
Of course, if the width of the earth were 24,000 miles, then we’d need something a bit thicker.
And, I am not going to do the calculation for the gravity above a planar surface… Exercise left for the reader.
OK, OK,
Here’s a start, involving an infinite plane…
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath530/kmath530.htm
Hint: Use the calculation in the link, and then subtract the integral from R=r to infinity That gets you the field for a disk of radius r.
Wait….the earth is flat? You mean those navigation mathematics I learned don’t actually work?
For once, Norton got it right!
We are actually on the inside of a set of crystalline Matroshka dolls
Flat earther…
BE THIS GUY almost 7 years ago
If the earth is flat, how thick is it?
Sherlock Watson almost 7 years ago
Which side are we on — heads or tails?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 7 years ago
The thickness has to be more than 65,000 feet (distance from top of Everest to bottom of the Marianas Trench.
Of course, if the width of the earth were 24,000 miles, then we’d need something a bit thicker.
And, I am not going to do the calculation for the gravity above a planar surface… Exercise left for the reader.
OK, OK,
Here’s a start, involving an infinite plane…
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath530/kmath530.htm
Hint: Use the calculation in the link, and then subtract the integral from R=r to infinity That gets you the field for a disk of radius r.
Hugh B. Hayve almost 7 years ago
Wait….the earth is flat? You mean those navigation mathematics I learned don’t actually work?
Masterskrain almost 7 years ago
For once, Norton got it right!
Pharmakeus Ubik almost 7 years ago
We are actually on the inside of a set of crystalline Matroshka dolls
panille almost 7 years ago
Flat earther…