Introduction to the Flat Earth Models
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Multiple Models of the Many Minds
Multiple Models of the Many Minds
The General Flat Earth Community does not have a singular model for our Earth. This is a consequence of an ideology that celebrates division. They all challenge each other, question each other, and each model was typically created to explain one observed phenomena at a time. Some models are capable of explaining most phenomena, but there can always be something left unexplained. As we question everything, we are opening ourselves up to more interpretations of the same truths.
The Flat Earth Society, FES, does have its own model but has gaps within the model that are still up for interpretation. The Flat Earth Society does not represent all Flat Earthers.
Below is a basic summary of the different models that commonly appear on Flat Earth forums to help guide discussion and illustrates the basic ideas.
Defining the Closed System
Defining the Closed System
In Flat Earth literature, “the Dome” is not a single standardized idea—it’s a variable concept that changes depending on the model and author. It generally is referred to as a barrier, separating our known laws and life, from the rest of space. In physics terms, it defines the closed system.
The Solid Dome
The Solid Dome
The Dome is said to be made of either; ice, a crystalline structure, an energetic barrier, or another unknown material.
It holds in the air and separates it from the outer water reservoirs.
Stars are represented in this model by:
Light Reflection from the sun and angle of tilt from the earth on the domes surface
Small holes/gaps in the domes surface
Stars embedded in the dome itself
The Atmospheric Dome
The Atmospheric Dome
Most similar to what the globies are told, the atmospheric model shows the dome not as a physical barrier, but as a layer of gases. The gases that enclose the earths air can be pentrated by rockets saftely, allowing people to travel beyond our planet.
Within the dome, most models have the sun and moon within the atmospheric dome, but some show the sun being much further away.
The Open Models
The Open Models
(Non-Dome Models)
(Non-Dome Models)
Not all Flat Earth models have a dome.
Without a dome, the sky is viewed as open space or an atmosphere extending upward indefinitely. The atmosphere extends upward, gradually becoming thinner.
The Sun and Moon are much smaller than the earth and much closer to Earth than in conventional astronomy. Day and night are explained by the Sun acting like a spotlight, illuminating only part of the Earth's surface at a given time. Stars are typically viewed as relatively nearby objects moving above the flat Earth, though explanations vary widely between different versions of the theory.
The Edge of the Earth
The Edge of the Earth
The Flat Earth models vary when it comes to the size of the Earth, specifically when it comes to The Edge. No known expedition to the egde of the Earth has been successful and dozens of well funded expeditions were halted by the United States Government over the years.
Skeptical of that last remark? You are starting to sound like a Flat Earther.
Planning a cruise to Antartica can be interrupted by the government due to lack of a passport. In the same way, they can claim that the area is too dangerous for civilians. But is it too dangerous, or is it kept away from us for a reason? How can we know?
The Infintite Edge
The Infintite Edge
The infinite plane model shows us that humans only occupy a tiny portion of a much larger plane. Countless other continents, civilizations, or unexplored regions may exist beyond our known world.
An infinite plane of uniform density can produce a finite gravitational field based on the results from Newtonian gravity and Gauss's Law. Atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude because the weight of the air above decreases. It may be easier to think that a Flat Earth has a finite edge, but mathmatically an infinite plane makes logical sense. An infinte plane would be difficult to conceal, but the conspiracy has been around longer than planes, cars, and cameras.
The Ice Wall Edge
The Ice Wall Edge
As you get further and further away from the sun, the climate gets colder and produces a wall of ice, from the gradual freezing of the oceans over time. Some people believe that there are civilizations in the planes beyond our known Earth, others believe that there is only ice or a finite sized ice wall. Traveling in any direction on the planet will lead you to the ice wall.
The Plain Surface
The Plain Surface
How flat is a Flat Earth?
Most models accept that there are mountains and valleys, but there are a few interesting models that show alternate veiws.
The Burnet Plane
The Burnet Plane
The Book, The Sacred Thoery of the Earth by Thomas Burnet, the Earth was a globe completly devoid of mountains, valleys, and buildings before the Flood in the story of Noahs Arc. All mountains and canonyons were created when God ripped the Earths crust to let the water resouviours in.
The Earth may have been a globe, but it is still a Flat Earth Model.
The Petrified Forest Plane
The Petrified Forest Plane
In 2016, a Russian Youtuber posted an 80 minute video called, ""There are no forests on Flat Earth Wake Up". The video was translated into other languages and exploded overnight. The channel has since been taken down.
In the video he explained that our large trees are gone and mountains are giant ancient tree stumps of what once was. He described his beliefs, expanding on the World Tree, the book of Enoch, and Hylothanatism. He sited multiple formations worldwide and sparked the revival of this Flat Earth Model.
The Tectonic Plane
The Tectonic Plane
Unlike The Burnet Model which claims the Earth was Flat, then became "textured" with mountains after Noah's Arc, and unlike The Petrified Forest model which claims the Earth was "textured" and became flat, this model claims that the Earth is just Flat.
Planar Tectonics: The flat crust is made up of jigsaw plates that smash into each other due to subterranean pressure, pushing the land upward into "Crease" or "Fault-slab" mountains.
Seasons Change
Seasons Change
CONVENTIONAL SCIENCE:
Seasons change depending on where you are around the earth and the time of year.
When the globe appears to be tilted towards the sun, the top part of Earth is warmer because it is closer to the sun. The bottom half is colder because it is now facing away from the sun. This leaves Alaska in a Polar Day/ Polar Night shift.
The Sun is supposedly 93 million miles away and the seasons are caused not by the 3 million miles of distance covered, but by the tilt?
The reason why the rays feel stronger directly is because the distance of the rays feel shorter. Using that logic, the oblong distance should affect seasons more than the tilt.
The atmosphere can affect the sun rays more than 3 million miles of space, even though there is a Interplanetary Dust Cloud between us and the sun that clearly reflects light? The science they tell us has gaps.
Tilting of the Earth
Tilting of the Earth
The image on the left was generated to show the Earths seasons on an azimuthal equideistant projection. These tempreture should, in theory, be the same as conventional meterology as there was no "Flat Earth" bias in the prompt.
Shown from the image, the seasons can be easily explained by the tilting of the Earth at a 2 dimensional scale, assuming the heat source comes from above. The center of the planet stays cool because it is a block of white, reflective ice which takes more heat and more time to heat.
Beyond that, the explanation for the minor distoration depends on the other aspects of the model. The Anti-Moon theory claims an invisable object is floating in the air that also causes the eclipses. The Anti-Moon could be hovering around the center more frequently, causing heat loss. The Solid Dome Theory can cause a cooler center because the dome is at its highest, its furthest from the Earths Surface. This means that heat would travel much further, the closer you get to the center which can cause heat loss. The Sun's orbit doesnt pass to the center and could also account for the cold spot.
Conservation of Angular Momentum
Conservation of Angular Momentum
The Sun Path changes from season to season.
From the image to the left you can see that the Winter Path is much longer than the Summer path. For the days to remain 24 hours long, the Sun must travel all paths within the same time. To account for this, the Sun travels faster in the winter and slower in the summer which accounts for the longer and shorter days in the season changes.
We also know that objects moving faster travel faster through time (realativity law) and we know that objects on the outer rim of a disk travel faster than the inner ring.
The Path of the Sun
The Path of the Sun
Before diving into the alternative science of the sun, here are the "facts" as presented on https://science.nasa.gov/sun/facts/
The Sun is about 100 times wider than Earth.
It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth.
Surface temperature of the Sun: 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit
Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 450,000 miles per hour (720,000 kilometers per hour). But even at this speed, it takes about 230 million years for the Sun to make one complete trip around the Milky Way.
Like all stars, our Sun will eventually run out of energy. When it starts to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star, becoming so large that it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and possibly Earth as well.
The Path of the Sun
The Path of the Sun
Rises in the East, Sets in the West
Rises in the East, Sets in the West
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is an observed phenomena that has been documented for thousends of years. So to follow this pattern, the sun must move from east to west, or the earth moves, or the dome moves. Something is moving.
The Sun appears to set on the horizon
The Sun appears to set on the horizon
If the sun was rotating in this orbit, the sun should look like it was getting larger and smaller as it fades away instead of what we observe: the sun falling off the edge of the horizon.
The explaination for the sun setting in this way entirely depends upon the model. The simplist answer here is Atmospheric Refraction.
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