To not understand how some can believe the earth is flat?

[crunchymint]

I have a friend who seems intelligent, well read and is lovely. And yet she believes the earth is flat. She shares on social media posts "explaining" this fact.
How can someone like this possibly believe this? I really don't understand.

I need to go now, It's pub O'clock in the UK, I will post again tomorrow. Cheers.

I'd like a pint of real ale, and if you could pick the twigs and leaves out for me, that would be lovely, thanks.

We all know the earth is not flat. If it was, all the cats would have pushed everything off by now.

I've had three. And you know you don't. Petal, you're confused by can't and won't, and can't follow a conversation. Quantum physics to you is like philosophy of religion to a labrador.

You won't because you can't, I doubt you'd even heard of the DS experiment are now googling for all your worth

More intriguing (and useful, from my professional stance) is quantum entanglement, and the implications of quantum cryptography.

As for MiggeldyHiggins, maybe they need to consider Feynmans' thoughts on quantum mechanics

I've read and watched so much information on the double split experiment I know think I know why it happens.

Like I said. If you think you understand quantum physics then you don’t.

I've had three. And you know you don't. Petal, you're confused by can't and won't, and can't follow a conversation. Quantum physics to you is like philosophy of religion to a labrador

Your blagging isn't impressing anyone you know.

I know about the double split experiment. I can explain what happens and some of the implications but that is like saying that Hamlet is about some bloke in Denmark. It’s true, but it’s missing a load of the story.

Surely depends what you mean by ‘understand’? I mean, most first year physics undergraduates have to understand it enough to do a few calculations of probabilities, crystal structures and so on.

More intriguing (and useful, from my professional stance) is quantum entanglement, and the implications of quantum cryptography

Well this is it, how can anyone say QP isn't a bit "woo" when you talk about entanglement? Even Einstein said it was "spooky" :)

I've tried to understand Quantum Computers and the need for keeping them cold etc, etc, but I've failed miserably, all I know is that if it succeeds and they work, they could make the earth a better place to live.

Or totally bugger up online security

Well, the race is on, the first QC to access the internet wins big although I suspect a few countries are exceptionally worried.

Getting back on topic .
I has proof.

@deste you would have travelled to either the far west coast of Sweden or the east coasts of Estonia or Russia

Or the other way round even!! (i've mixed up East and west)

Love this thread

Quantum physics aside, I’m still trying to figure out what part of 9-11 was the hoax?

Omg will @A4710Rider and @MiggeldyHiggins get a room already!?!

Well.... that fell flat

I've read and watched so much information on the double split experiment I know think I know why it happens.

Erm, ... sorry to be a pain in the arse but ... if you've read so much about it, how come you call it the 'double split experiment'?

It's 'slit'.

And, no, I don't claim to understand quantum mechanics. At all. I'm a mere engineer (and not in a particularly physics heavy discipline of engineering either).

What's a double slit. Sounds dodge.

About the maps being the wrong way up. Is funny who came up with north being north and south being south to locate the earth in space.

My DF ran into a couple of Young Earth Creationists on a parish weekend. They were the first he'd ever met in 80+ years. Totally freaked him out. But he says he owes them a debt of thanks because, inspired by them, he read Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" which he hugely enjoyed.

Christians believe that God created. That's a given. But a 6,000 year old Earth? That's piffle. It also brings faith into disrepute.

Apparently the earth’s curve that you can see out of an aeroplane window isn’t real, it’s actually the curve of the window.

So how did the idea of a Flat Earth get started & what is the benefit of it?
Incidentally every time we move house one of the next door neighbours shares either my birthday or the day before. Has happened 3 times (the last 3 house moves to different parts of the country.) It's just a pure coincidence.

Yes that’s what I wonder too - what’s the benefit to any authority to pretend the earth is spherical if it is indeed flat?
Who would be benefitting or profiting from it?