Neither spherical nor flat: More and more people believe that the earth looks like a donut
You've probably heard of the Flat Country community, but what about the Donut Country community?
It turns out that there is a fairly large audience of believers in the theory that our planet looks like a donut with a hole in the middle - and that's their explanation
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07/02/2022
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A man wants to launch a rocket and prove that the world is flat (Photo: YouTube, Editing: Vered Lidani)
Members of the "flat country" community, who believe that the structure of the earth is flat and not spherical, can now take comfort in the fact that their theory is no longer the most delusional we have heard.
In recent years, a new subgroup has emerged, within the "flat earth" people, who believe that the earth is not flat but looks like a donut with a hole in the middle.
Believers in this conspiracy theory explain that since light "bends", the "true" shape of the earth is not visible to the humans who live on it - so we can not see its correct shape.
The theory that we inhabit a planet with a huge hole in its center first appeared in 2008 as a joke in the flat country community, Vice reports.
A user named Dr. Rosenpennis opened the thread and wrote: "The most delicious heavenly body, the earth glazed with sugar." The guy probably did not understand that he was in a particularly unstable community and many began to believe his words. Scientific explanation of the matter and surpassed the theory of light: "Light bends and follows the curvature of the torus, making the hole invisible," he wrote.
Imagine a donut with jam.
Gravity acts towards the jam, "he explained.
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This is what it looks like in their opinion:
Earth looks like a donut (Photo: Giphy, Youtube)
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The theory that the shape of the earth is a torus (a surface obtained from the rotation of a circle in three-dimensional space around a plane in the plane of the circle, and passing outside the circle) received another boost in 2016, when the same old chain came up again.
"I'm glad to see new proponents of the Toroidal Earth Theory here," user Neil Dinosaur wrote, "I've been promoting this theory for a long time, but no one seems to be backing me up. I can not understand why."
More explanation of the donut theory:
And what does science say about it?
Look surprised: Scientists have completely refuted this theory.
If the Earth were in the structure of Taurus it would not allow us to experience night and day - as well as sunrises and sunsets - as we experience them today.
"If the Earth were in the shape of a donut, the transition from night to day spread over 24 hours would have been impossible," Dr. Teveta Boijian explained to Vice, "The seasons will change because they depend on how the donut is at an angle to the sun.
The winds on such a planet would make life on Earth impossible. "
Oxford professor Dr. Anders Sandberg told Vice that the shape of the donut means those living near the" hole "will experience double seasons each year, like the second winter in July.
The shape will also lead to noticeably weaker gravity in the inner and outer equator.
Also, there is the fact that if you live inside the donut - you would expect to see its other side as soon as you look at the sky - something that has not yet been reported as possible.
Despite the seemingly scientific argument about the theory of bending light, Dr. Boyagian explained that it only happens near large bodies in the universe like super-massive black holes. She added: To invent a new idea without any basis for it, with an attempt to rely on one thing and that is it.
That's not how we develop theories. "
What would happen if the earth were really in the shape of a donut?
In recent years the "flat earth" community, which rejects the idea that the structure of the earth is spherical, has grown greatly.
They believe that our planet is actually a disk with an arctic circle in the middle.
According to them, Antarctica is actually a 45-foot-high ice wall built to prevent us all from falling from the edge.
They also claim that NASA is a scam and that all the images and videos we have from space are computer-generated content (CGI). Although their opinions sound unfounded, the movement has also attracted celebrities from around the world and gained a fairly established community of believers.
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