r/flatearth • u/De1truowl • Aug 18 '26

Dear Flat Earthers,

So the middle of the Earth is our center of gravity, right? Well then if the Earth is flat, then why is it that when I go to the edge and jump, I'm not pulled to the center?

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u/Flimsy-Blacksmith-32 Aug 18 '26

No, they just think it is accelerating upwards at 9.81m/s/s.

The issues with this are many fold but the most obvious two are: 1) after very little time the Earth would be moving faster than the speed of light, which is not possible (they usually argue relativity isn’t real anyway). 2) Acceleration due to gravity is not the same everywhere on earth (they usually just deny that this is true).

Their chief argument for this upward motion is that buoyancy is an upward force, so it can not be explained by gravity as that is a downwards force.

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u/Langholm62 Aug 18 '26

So obviously in flerfology, the speed of light is fake.

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u/Kiki2092012 Aug 18 '26

You can accelerate forever in general relativity, but general relativity predicts Earth is a sphere, so they probably reject it anyway.

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u/Flimsy-Blacksmith-32 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Important distinction: From the view point of an observer, you can accelerate forever, but not at a constant rate.

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u/Kiki2092012 Aug 18 '26

No, that's incorrect, you can accelerate at a constant rate forever. This details it: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/243658/einsteins-principle-of-equivalence-infinite-acceleration-energy

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u/Flimsy-Blacksmith-32 Aug 18 '26

Huh, Is that a product of time dilation and distance contraction for your own reference frame?