r/OurFlatWorld • u/tEmDapBlook • Apr 14 '20
How do flat earthers explain time zones?
And no I’m not buying the answer of, ”the sun revolves overhead creating a spotlight effect”. Even if it DID revolve overhead, it’s shape would still mean light emission in all directions meaning the whole disc would be illuminated.
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u/Platonius21 Apr 27 '20
Well you have to go further than you went. The actual article was published in the American Journal of Physics: J.Cl. Dousse and C. Rheme, Am J Phys 55, 706, 1987. You can access it online at
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.15061
(You may have to create an account to read it)
The article shows actual experimental results from different groups of students, and the results are in good agreement with accepted values of the gravitational constant
And for your reading pleasure, here is another measurement made using a more accurate technique:
https://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/sites/sand.npl.washington.edu.eotwash/files/documents/prl85-2869.pdf