Gravity
The idea that there is a force that keeps everything, not literally attached to the earth, from flying off a spinning globe, is inherent (part of) it's own cosmology.
That there is a force that keeps things on a flat stationary earth from floating in space is also inherent (part of) it's own cosmology.
You're implying here that there is some sort of question begging going on here and that is flatly not the case.
Unless your cosmology denies that apples don't fall from trees then what we refer to as gravity is in your cosmology as much as it is in everyone else's.
And whether one is talking about it in the context of a flat earth cosmology or otherwise, you still come to F = G*((m sub 1*m sub 2)/r^2).
In other words, the burden is on you (or whomever holds to the flat-earth fantacy) to explain how the flat earth acts exactly like a round one.
That things have mass, density, and buoyancy, is enough of an explanation for flat stationary earth, but not enough for a spinning globe.
This has already been directly and utterly debunked. The fact that you bring it up as though it hasn't, I count as a lie.
I still contend, although I am reading up on Newton's laws and how he discovered and confirmed them, that his theories are based on "thought experiment"--imagination, just as Einstein's relativity is.
You'd better keep reading because it's laughably idiotic thing to even say, never mind actually believe. All of Newton's work is fully documented and still exists for anyone to study and repeat. He took very detailed notes ON HIS OBSERVATIONS and measurements all of which have been tested a confirmed and retested and reconfirmed more than nearly anything any scienctist has ever done in the whole of history. To reject Newton's work is to reject science itself.
Gravity is an invisible, unverifiable, concept.
Stupidity!
It is, of course, invisible, but unverifiable? It's only one of the most verified things in all of HISTORY! Not just the history of science but of the whole history of history!!!
By that I mean we cannot handle, feel, or see it. We believe in it because science demands a cause for an effect. Gravity is the cause and a seemingly stationary earth in which things don't fly off into space is the effect, which is a contradiction in empirical terms. Gravity is a non physical part of physics, which is also a contradiction.
Not that contradictions can't be resolved, as you know the theorists of evolution of the universe and life are constantly resolving contradictions they themselves create. An irrational dialectic thought process has prevailed over science just as is has theology.
--Dave
Contradiction?
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