The experiment you're talking about was done by Eratosthenes. The story is a joke.
But, since you believe it... one version of the story is this (the science is the same, so it doesn't matter). Two sticks were placed in the ground at different locations. One in his city, one 500 miles away. He and his friend logged the shadow on the stick at a particular time. One had a shadow, the other did not. Therefore, curvature.
Take two beer bottles, put them on your floor. Grab a flashlight. Hold the flashlight over the first beer bottle.
You do not understand at all. Education has failed you, or you're slow, or you're lying on purpose.
Trigonometry proves that the sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles away. If the earth were flat, the shadows of the two sticks would be too similar to measure the difference in ancient times. The amount of the difference could only be explained by the earth being round and about 8,000 miles in diameter.
Only if you think the sun is much closer than the 93,000,000 miles that it is proven to be. At that distance, the sun's rays are almost perfectly parallel, so the experiment absolutely would not work on a flat earth. That's a fact.
How did they prove it? Please explain to me how they knew it without ever actually being there. The same math problem works perfectly if you scale up or down on your measurements. Math doesn't prove shit if it was all based off of an assumption in the first place.
I've never seen parallel sun rays in my life and neither have you so how the hell did they just assume the sun rays come in parallel?
The diameter of the earth was calculated in ancient times based on sun angles. A flat earth would not have given the same results.
It's simple to understand by those of us with triple digit IQs.
That's just one proof.
It was a flawed pseudoscience experiment relying entirely on assumptions.
I can recreate the experiment on the floor of my house and get the same results.
Does that mean my flooring is curved?
No you can't. Quit making things up. Trigonometry is not an assumption.
The experiment you're talking about was done by Eratosthenes. The story is a joke.
But, since you believe it... one version of the story is this (the science is the same, so it doesn't matter). Two sticks were placed in the ground at different locations. One in his city, one 500 miles away. He and his friend logged the shadow on the stick at a particular time. One had a shadow, the other did not. Therefore, curvature.
Take two beer bottles, put them on your floor. Grab a flashlight. Hold the flashlight over the first beer bottle.
Congratulations, you're Eratosthenes.
You do not understand at all. Education has failed you, or you're slow, or you're lying on purpose.
Trigonometry proves that the sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles away. If the earth were flat, the shadows of the two sticks would be too similar to measure the difference in ancient times. The amount of the difference could only be explained by the earth being round and about 8,000 miles in diameter.
That sticks and shadows experiment works on flat earth too.
Only if you think the sun is much closer than the 93,000,000 miles that it is proven to be. At that distance, the sun's rays are almost perfectly parallel, so the experiment absolutely would not work on a flat earth. That's a fact.
How did they prove it? Please explain to me how they knew it without ever actually being there. The same math problem works perfectly if you scale up or down on your measurements. Math doesn't prove shit if it was all based off of an assumption in the first place. I've never seen parallel sun rays in my life and neither have you so how the hell did they just assume the sun rays come in parallel?
I can't teach you an entire course in physics, astronomy, and higher math in a reply. Perhaps you should go back to school.
It would with a smaller localized sun.