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Another gravity denialist, perfect: I'm going to be a pedantic college graduate engineer at you.

  1. Water absolutely can stick to a spinning ball: all liquids have some component cohesive and adhesive forces to them. This is what causes the meniscus to form in a tube. It is also what keeps a water column from flowing out of a tube even though nothing is blocking it when the tube is small enough. If you were to take a hydrophilic ball or a ball with a rough or absorbent surface and spin it at a rate of one rotation per day, you're not going to overpower the cohesive and adhesive forces. So absolutely yes, water can stick to a spinning ball. In fact if you're going to throw paint at a canvas you can use a ball on the end of a stick. You dip the ball in the paint and then spin the ball so that the paint never drips off the bottom and then you overpower the cohesive and adhesive forces by flinging the ball at the canvas.

  2. Gravity is not a downward force. Get that concept out of your head: that is not how it works. REPEAT IT WITH ME: gravity is not a downward force, it is in attractive force.

Now beyond my pedantry, if water can't stick to the Earth if it's a ball and spinning: where do you propose the water would go?

Where is down when you're not standing somewhere on the planet and pointing at your feet and saying that's down?

I mean it you're trying to discredit the globe model from within the globe model which is the best way to discredit a theory. Use the theory itself to discredit the theory.

So if it's a ball and water can't stick to it, where does it go? What's the other option? Where is down if pointing at the most extreme local source of gravity and calling that down is not down?

2 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

Another gravity denialist, perfect: I'm going to be a pedantic college graduate engineer at you.

  1. Water absolutely can stick to a spinning ball: all liquids have some component cohesive and adhesive forces to them. This is what causes the meniscus to form in a tube. It is also what keeps a water column from flowing out of a tube even though nothing is blocking it when the tube is small enough. If you were to take a hydrophilic ball or a ball with a rough or absorbent surface and spin it at a rate of one rotation per day, you're not going to overpower the cohesive and adhesive forces. So absolutely yes, water can stick to a spinning ball.

  2. Gravity is not a downward force. Get that concept out of your head: that is not how it works. REPEAT IT WITH ME: gravity is not a downward force, it is in attractive force.

Now beyond my pedantry, if water can't stick to the Earth if it's a ball and spinning: where do you propose the water would go?

Where is down when you're not standing somewhere on the planet and pointing at your feet and saying that's down?

I mean it you're trying to discredit the globe model from within the globe model which is the best way to discredit a theory. Use the theory itself to discredit the theory.

So if it's a ball and water can't stick to it, where does it go? What's the other option? Where is down if pointing at the most extreme local source of gravity and calling that down is not down?

2 years ago
1 score