Conversation About Flat Earthism With A Respected Particle Physicist
(names sanitized to preserve relationships)
Dear Joseph,
Wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading about your adventures in programming orbital mechanics for the Air Force. Extremely impressive!
I've come to agree with your opinion about Flat Earth being a communist infiltration technique. I've been reluctant to talk about this because I didn't want any friction between [REDACTED] and me over this while we were getting our [REDACTED] underway. Could have scuttled the whole project. ..
For the record, I did find it valuable as a physicist to be forced by Flat Earthers to ask myself why do I know absolutely the earth is round?
I reasoned it out and it comes down to very simple observable things. The Earth cannot be flat because there is clearly night and day. (See Genesis Chapter 1)
The sun rises. The sun sets. All observers agree, unless they are being deceptive, that these things occur, and moreover of the moments at which these events happen, and the locations on the horizon at which they occur on a given day. Everyone claps at the Santa Monica pier when the sun is no longer visible. There is no mistaking it. And they clap, I assert, at the same moment on the next pier over, at the same time. So it's not social pressure.
Also—kill shot—the sun maintains its angular width in the sky as it rises/ets. Half way down, one sees half a disk.
No one can tell me that this statement is not true, and it absolutely implies the Earth cannot be flat.
I would challenge any Flat Earther to watch the sunset with me and tell me, straight to my face: the sun did not go down, but is getting smaller and further away until the light will vanish and the sky goes dark (and then circles around to the north and back to the east before growing large again at "daybreak"). They could not do it, because we all know that is not what happens. We all know that the sun SETS!
All these observations are intimate to our experiences and available to anyone on earth anywhere, any day. Case closed for me. I'd love to be their foil on this because no way they can unhorse me.
Feel free to use my arguments here—but anonymously for now. I want to be the one to raise it with [REDACTED], if ever I need to. Hopefully he'll get over it, especially after knowing it's Commie propaganda.
Thanks for taking this on. Sorry I couldn't be more of an ally when you asked…
Best wishes,
[REDACTED]
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My Reply:
I've been trying to get [REDACTED] to get Starlink as a "backup" for the "communications blackout" we are told is coming. I plan to have it in July. He could take it to the lake resort he likes and broadcast his show over the “false” invisible signal dot in the sky. Never mind that all navy ships have been doing that for decades...
I don't know, but I doubt he really believes in the flat earth. So what's the explanation? To me, it contaminates everything it touches. I think that is the purpose.
For the record, I don't consider the FE conjecture to be communist in nature. Historically, it is a CIA PSYOP, so it would be more correct to label it a globalist tactic. Not that people who truly subscribe to FE are globalists. They are unwitting dupes.
The ones who know it’s a PSYOP and promulgate it anyway, are paid shills.
https://godparticle.substack.com/p/how-i-know-the-earth-isnt-flat