The Flat World Idea

We've all been informed that the Earth is round, however this is not something our everyday experience can undoubtedly affirm. Looking outside, we see structures, trees, possibly a few slopes or valleys... almost no confirmation that the World's surface is bended. Notwithstanding when we're at the shore of a substantial lake or the sea, the water close to the skyline shows up very level. How then do researchers realize that the Earth is round? The least difficult and most persuading evidence that the World's is "round" is to look at a photograph of our planet consumed from room or to circle it in the space carry.

The fourth dimension is impossible for us humans to picture in our minds, and some may doubt that it even exists or wonder what it is. It is possible to prove that the fourth dimension exists, and I am going to try to explain it by using geometry, though it will still be hard to picture it in your mind. When watching flatland the movie, it made me think about how there could be a fourth dimension. Before watching the movie and starting this paper, I thought that there was no way for us to truly understand it, just as no one in the movie understood the concept of there being any dimension higher in their own.

Chapter Eight of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat explains six “dirty secrets” when it comes to America’s standing as a competitive nation, six truths that reveal that America will not maintain its relative wealth if the world continues to flatten. The first of these “secrets” is what Friedman calls “the numbers gap”, referring to the declining number of Americans who are training to become scientists and engineers compared to citizens of other nations. Friedman posits that scientists and engineers are paramount to an economy that wishes to be flourish and be competitive. Before the world began to flatten, citizens of foreign nations would have to emigrate to America if they wished to be a scientist or an engineer, because their home country had no equivalent labs to those of America. Now, with the effects of flattening and the Internet, researchers can collaborate over the Internet, and globalization allows labs to have multiple, international locations.

In recent news, a new community has outwardly spoken on the theory, the earth is flat. This community calls themselves “The Flat Earth Society” or “Flat Earthers”. This began around the mid-20th century and has rapidly grown with the expansion of social media, and influencers such as rapper B.o.B and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal.

The only reason it was not pursued before was the assumption that the world was flat. After

Long before the creation of the magnificent

Human beliefs of reality primarily focus on what a person sees around them and what they believe they understand. The three concepts that attach themselves to this belief system are thinking, knowing, and finally being. As person journeys through these concepts, they begin to see that it is not a simple idea to truly understand reality and their part within it. A true understanding of reality flows more from the interconnectedness of these three concepts than from them individually. Once individual concepts are grasped the path towards the full realization of potentiality that these represent is discovered. These concepts allows understanding the main character in Flatland, A. Square, when he proclaimed “I looked below, and saw with my physical eye all that domestic individuality which I had hitherto merely inferred with the understanding. And how poor and shadowy was the inferred conjecture in comparison with the reality I now beheld.” To fully understand the power of this statement, I will demonstrate how thinking, knowing, and being are unique to themselves individually. I will also demonstrate how they interconnect with each other, allowing anyone willing to work through the process a much broader understanding not only of the reality they live in, but additionally the new reality that is now open before them.

The story of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbott is a story in which the narrator, a Two-dimensional square, travels to other dimensions and learns their customs. In the beginning, this square, otherwise known as A. Square, presents knowledgeable information about the way his world, Flatland, works. He goes on to tell of the social class system, where the more sides a male figure has, the greater rank he has within the social system. Women are straight lines and cannot grow at all within the social system. The customs of Flatland have never changed.

Smyrna, also called the Island of Chios around 12th and 8th centuries BC. Legend has it that his

On December 30, 2016 and then, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) held a discussion with the adherents of the earth is flat. Pieces of discussion can be seen in the following video.

Well to start off, Earth is round and everyone knows that. The earth was formed from clouds and dust which created stars and other things. The earth’s core was made first because it was like winds were swirling around with all this dust. The gravity started to pull everything together and then the earth was made. Then the earth’s crust was made. Gravity is the reason why the earth is a sphere. The earth is round because all the sides have to be equal if you were to measure from the center. And if you were to measure it from the center then it would be the same length all the way around in anyway that you measured it. Flat Earth Society members believe the earth is flat because they walk on it and because it looks and feels flat. But did they ever look at the pictures and wonder why the earth is a

First the European thinkers in the past centuries believed that Earth was God’s creation and that the Earth had been created in 4004B.C. They believed that Earth was about 5,500 to 6000 years old. Two most common perspectives of the history of the Earth in the 17th and 19th centuries are catastrophism and uniformitarianism. In the late seventeenth many groups believed that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden violent event.One example that catastrophists used as evidence of the process of catastrophic destruction was Noah’s flood. A new concept, known as uniformitarianism , replaced catastrophism. James Hutton proposed an opposing, infinite cycle on natural history and not on the Bible. He thought that Earth was much older that

Take the ancient Greeks, for example, between 700 B.C.-500 A.D. Greeks leaders did not care if scientists disagreed with biblical cosmology (Miller 10). They encouraged the thought provoking ideas that these scientists brought up. Ancient Babylonians were also free in their studies of the universe (Crabtree). Crabtree added they had believed in a heliocentric solar system, or a solar system where the sun is the center and all the other planets orbit it. They were able to believe in this theory because they had not the restrictions of a power stricken church that forced biblical cosmology among people. Biblical cosmology is the belief in a solar system where Earth is the center point, the sun and other planets revolve it, and the Earth itself as a flat body (Crabtree). Miller claims some

In view of Thomas Friedman’s work “It’s a flat world, after all”, the entire planet is turning into a global village due to a rapid growth of information technology. There are 10 major contributors, which were also named “flateners” by Friedman, that made the playing field level. Undoubtedly, current sophistication in technology has provided us great access to internet, a virtual platform where people are capable of communicating, sharing knowledge, or performing online activities. Globalization appears to have collapsed the concerns of space and time by outsourcing cheap labor from another continent to undertake the same task but with equal or better performance. To some extent, Friedman has brought about an

The Way of the World serves a particular function. It shows the reality of the world as Congreve perceived it. The characters within the play display certain behaviors and opinions that are found within the high society of the Restoration period. Even the names of the characters impart some knowledge. Each character 's name is a reflection of their personality. For example, Fainall feigns all and Lady Wishfort wishes for it (Congreve 2360). Their names reflect their personality and behaviors, which teaches various lessons. The play functions as a window into the world of wealth and power, and shines a light on their behaviors, both positive and negative. Congreve used his satirical play to make the nobility see the truth of their world, and to show them how their way affects social relations.