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L@@K Is the world round??

Reply 20

Philadelphia

Its a big bouncing ball with a soft chewy centre :p:

Reply 21

rising_heat

Its a wierd three d angley shape, and the mountains and hills are the corners and stuff...... :biggrin:

Reply 22

vin

15

O great now I feel kinda stuipid. I clicked on yes before reading any posts. Doh! :banghead:

Reply 23

NickNack

1

it is not the world that is spherical - the world is flat. It is the spacetime in which the world exists that is spherical and manipulating our eyes and minds..... :dancing:

Reply 24

saiyamanadingdongbanana

homoterror

I'm so confused. What?

lol, might as well explain....

Consider a ball rolling along a table. Eventually it will stop. This is due to friction. The Co-efficient of friction is the 'amount' of friction an object has (0 being no friction, and 1 being complete friction). Therefore, because of mountains etc, the earth has a co-efficient of friction >0

Reply 25

NickNack

1

saiyamana

lol, might as well explain....

Consider a ball rolling along a table. Eventually it will stop. This is due to friction. The Co-efficient of friction is the 'amount' of friction an object has (0 being no friction, and 1 being complete friction). Therefore, because of mountains etc, the earth has a co-efficient of friction >0

lol some1 else who does/did Mechanics at Alevel :smile:

did u have to teach urself the entire syllibus as well? virtually all 100 of us doing maths a2 have had to, NOT fun

Reply 26

MorbidAngel

11

Seabiscuit

Its round...ish.

**** me! i thought it was a square!

Reply 27

Kard

It can't be perfectly spherical because there's hills and stuff.

Reply 28

saz_1989

2

NickNack

it is not the world that is spherical - the world is flat. It is the spacetime in which the world exists that is spherical and manipulating our eyes and minds..... :dancing:

are you trying to suggest length contraction can make a flat surface spherical? because it can't. it only applies parallel to direction of travel. and don't get me started on inertial frames. just...no.

Reply 29

saz_1989

2

NickNack

it is not the world that is spherical - the world is flat. It is the spacetime in which the world exists that is spherical and manipulating our eyes and minds..... :dancing:

are you trying to suggest length contraction can make a flat surface spherical? because it can't. it only applies parallel to direction of travel. and don't get me started on inertial frames. just...no.

Reply 30

Gem

14

I think its round becuase I don't think a square earth would spin so well in space, plus where are corners?!

Reply 31

Gem

14

MInd you corners would be cool...but hurt quite a bit if you fell on one :smile:

Reply 32

saiyamanadingdongbanana

NickNack

lol some1 else who does/did Mechanics at Alevel :smile:

did u have to teach urself the entire syllibus as well? virtually all 100 of us doing maths a2 have had to, NOT fun

No no the teacher taught us quite well... :rolleyes:

Well i may have failed the M1 exam, despite doing great on C1 and C2 :frown:

and M2, dont get me started on that (im doing S1 instead :p:

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Reply 33

sherunsaway

2

The Earth is round because if it wasn't, it would be flat.

Reply 34

Little_Button

7

-sophie-

Due to a very irritating argument I am running a poll to call verdict, please give your opinion, is the world round or not? I personally have read that it is infact not round but flatter at the poles and has a fancy name such as an oblate spheroid hmmm and isnt round but the alternate argument is i suppose that it is flat, also some people think it is perfectly spherical,

PLEASE END THE CONTRAVERSY!!

Cheers, Sophie x

id say that the answer is no, the earth is not a perfect sphere as it is slightly flatter at the poles and bulges out at the equator, also perfect spheres do not exist as all matter is composed of atoms!
katie xx

L@@K Is the world round??

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