See Foucault's pendulum. It takes a little bit of mathematical sophistication to run these calculations, but I have done this experiment myself (as an undergrad). It shows quite clearly the earth is spinning. It allows you to show your latitude easily, and if you go to a different latitude you get the predicted results.
There's ultimately a curving downward and away from any position you're at, given enough distance
Have you never watched a boat go over the horizon?
Living by two different oceans for the majority of my life, I have many times.
Foucalt's pendulum is a joke, friend! It may work by calculation, sure, but were the Earth's spin the cause of any movement you would be able to recreate the experiment with no motor or push to start on literally any fixture of propper height. In reality, that doesn't work. The suspended string would just hang there, unmoving, forever.
The second phenomenon is a result of the angular resolution of your eyes. In a flat building of great enough width you will see the ceiling decline and the ground rise to your eye line over a distance. It's not disappearing over a curve - eyes just don't see forever.
It may work by calculation, sure, but were the Earth's spin the cause of any movement you would be able to recreate the experiment with no motor or push to start on literally any fixture of propper height. that doesn't work. The suspended string would just hang there, unmoving, forever.
Foucault's pendulum shows a latitude specific precession of the pendulum. This means depending on what latitude you are at (which part of the rotating sphere you are on) dictates HOW FAST the pendulum precesses around in a circle. If you change latitudes it precesses at a different rate. If you are on the equator, it precesses not one bit. If you are at the north (or south) pole its precession is maximized and it takes exactly one day to go around. And if you are at the north pole it precesses in the opposite direction as the south pole, exactly as you would expect if you were on a spinning sphere..
This is a simple experiment (although not simple to personally travel to all those places). If you (or any flat earther) had ever studied physics or even just math, there would be no more flat earthers.
See Foucault's pendulum. It takes a little bit of mathematical sophistication to run these calculations, but I have done this experiment myself (as an undergrad). It shows quite clearly the earth is spinning. It allows you to show your latitude easily, and if you go to a different latitude you get the predicted results.
Have you never watched a boat go over the horizon?
Living by two different oceans for the majority of my life, I have many times.
Foucalt's pendulum is a joke, friend! It may work by calculation, sure, but were the Earth's spin the cause of any movement you would be able to recreate the experiment with no motor or push to start on literally any fixture of propper height. In reality, that doesn't work. The suspended string would just hang there, unmoving, forever.
The second phenomenon is a result of the angular resolution of your eyes. In a flat building of great enough width you will see the ceiling decline and the ground rise to your eye line over a distance. It's not disappearing over a curve - eyes just don't see forever.
Foucault's pendulum shows a latitude specific precession of the pendulum. This means depending on what latitude you are at (which part of the rotating sphere you are on) dictates HOW FAST the pendulum precesses around in a circle. If you change latitudes it precesses at a different rate. If you are on the equator, it precesses not one bit. If you are at the north (or south) pole its precession is maximized and it takes exactly one day to go around. And if you are at the north pole it precesses in the opposite direction as the south pole, exactly as you would expect if you were on a spinning sphere..
This is a simple experiment (although not simple to personally travel to all those places). If you (or any flat earther) had ever studied physics or even just math, there would be no more flat earthers.
If you never studied physics or math, there would be no more globers...
Ill see myself out
What is the farthest distance you have seen a boat with a telescope?