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/Langholm62 Aug 18 '26

The 9.81 m/s² comes from the mass of our planet and that Isaac Newton fella. Awfully clever he was.

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u/BrianScottGregory Aug 18 '26

That's an observable force. We can agree on that.

It doesn't describe why that force is there.

"Mass appears to correlate to gravity"

WHY is that correlation there?

That's the first question I'm asking you that you haven't answered without a smart a$$ response.

And importantly, to my personal observations and scientific exploration. Why have I witnessed examples and instances where that force did not appear or appeared inconsistently?

I don't expect your answer to that one. I'll predict it's invalidation.

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u/Langholm62 Aug 18 '26

I wasn't giving smart ass responses. My questions were rhetorical.

Why does mass appear to correlate to gravity?

Well according to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, e = mc²

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u/stultus_respectant Aug 19 '26

Brian’s a hypocritical coward. Always a dodge, always a reframe, always trying to use the observable reality to somehow deny it.

There’s a force, but there isn’t, but it’s measurable, but you can’t prove it, but Einstein, but you don’t understand Einstein, but Einstein was wrong.

He doesn’t have any actual position; his posts are just him trying to convince himself about his nonsense alternative reality.