Flat Earth If It Doesn’t Fit It Must Be Sh it
INTRODUCTION
This
presents more data and its processing and analysis just like the previous blog
post. All the explanatory details do not need to be repeated here. If you need
to, refer back to the previous post. As before, all files are shared freely on
my Scribd account, so people can see and check and analyze my work, and use
these files to do their own experiments for themselves no matter where they are
in the world.
For review I
just want to summarize the basic concept upon which these types of experiments
are based.
You travel a
route and track it with GPS and independent odometer and speedometer, and maintain
constant speeds as much as you can throughout the trip and note this
information also. Afterwards you process the latitude longitude data versus
time according to spherical earth surface geometry and flat circular disk earth
geometry and compare the results. Invariably what you will find is that the
spherical geometry interpretation reconciles all the data with itself. The flat
geometry interpretation leads to significant contradictions.
It is really
up to flat earth advocates to explain how the data should be interpreted in
order to make it conform in all ways to flat earth geometry and theory and at
the same time to reality. I claim that to make this fit flat earth theory is an
impossibility. The pizza pie is really in their pizza oven now.
Now the way
that I am interpreting the data according to flat circular disk earth geometry
is to take the latitude longitude data and interpret it with the azimuthal
equidistant map as if it were a flat earth map. Now I have tried interpreting
it in two other possible ways consistent with different aspects of flat earth
theory. Both of these ways also lead to significant contradictions.
One way is
shifting all of the latitude data points up by the same amount to bring the
west east gradient in terms of miles traveled per degree of longitude the same
on flat circular disk earth geometry as it is on the spherical earth where the
data was actually taken. This ends up fitting the speedometer and odometer data
pretty well, but obviously the location is way off, as it shifts my San Jose
data north around 500 miles to approximately Sisters Oregon.
Could flat
earth advocates actually have an uncertainty of locating a place on the flat earth
map of as much as 500 miles? If their “map” which they claim not to really have
yet, has this much uncertainty, then what business do they have using any so
called “flat earth map” to justify all of their many claims that the earth is
flat, like the way that the Sun and Moon circle around it, and the way that
airline flights make more sense (they claim) on the flat earth map than on the
spherical earth map?
And then the
other way I have tried to make the data fit flat earth circular disk geometry
is to essentially flatten the spherical data and then plop it somewhere on the
flat earth map. The spherical data itself is close to being flat just by its
nature of being a route of not much overall distance on the earth, but
mathematically it is kind of like me taking that route that is already pretty
close to flat and putting it on an ironing board and ironing it flat so I can
then easily plop it onto any flat earth map. Here again, we would need the flat
earth advocates to tell us where to plop it. So I choose making the starting
point of latitude and longitude the same on the flat as on the spherical. When
I do this, there is quite a bit of agreement, but the route ends up not
coinciding with the actual route of the trip. Again, it just does not fit. At
this point I am holding off on presenting this additional information in detail,
until I can find a way to present it in as simple and understandable way as
possible. Also, I want to give flat earth advocates a chance to struggle with
trying to make their flat earth model fit the real world data.
How long can
flat earth advocates keep hiding underneath their undefined flat earth map?
Eventually many
will have no choice but to exclaim, “Look! The Flat Earth Emperor is wearing no
map!”
SO NOW ON TO
PRESENTING THE NEW DATA
Here I want
to illustrate how a shorter trip can provide good data for this type of experiment
and analysis. After this perhaps I will try an even shorter trip by car around
just residential streets. If that ends up working OK, then the next step might
be to see if the experiment can be done by walking a route around the
neighborhood.
The same
file naming scheme as before is still used. The previous blog explained the
rationale behind this. In this case in the Excel files the data extends down to
row 1642.
For this
trip I was able to hold a constant speed with cruise control for almost the
entire distance on the freeway. There was really just one place where I had to
slow down briefly for some night time construction work. As before, the
constant speed held shows up very clearly in the data processed according to
spherical earth geometry, whereas when the data is processed according to flat
earth geometry the long intervals of constant speed deviate markedly from being
constant. Here’s the results.
Freeway
Circle Around Home in San Jose
35.2 km
(21.9 miles) by odometer
Duration by
watch 0:32
Duration
Start to Stop GPS 0:32:20
35.1 km 65.1
km/h ave speed 97.2 km/h top speed by GPS
35.054 km
65.015 km/h ave speed confirmed by calculations in Sph Excel spreadsheet
Speed versus
Time plot for spherical model shows clear agreement with speedometer data
Speed versus
Time plot for flat model shows large deviations from speedometer data
38.2 km 70.9
km/h ave speed by calculations in Flt Excel spreadsheet Inconsistent with
odometer data
Spherical
Earth model: Affirmed
Flat Earth
model: Large deviations from reality
Speed versus
Time according to Flat theory
https://s19.postimg.org/uz8iby8nn/Screenshot_24.png
Speed versus
Time according to Spherical theory
https://s19.postimg.org/53orstz4z/Screenshot_25.png
Speed versus
Time according to Spherical and Flat theory all on the same graph.
https://s19.postimg.org/t8j3ewno3/Screenshot_30.png
I have made
these files available to the public through my Scribd account.
20171130214830-38065-data Text file
https://www.scribd.com/document/366015520/20171130214830-38065-data
351651FreewayCircleAroundHome Excel file
https://www.scribd.com/document/366015680/351651-Freeway-Circle-Around-Home
351651FreewayCircleAroundHomeFlt Excel file
https://www.scribd.com/document/366015813/351651-Freeway-Circle-Around-Home-Flt
351651FreewayCircleAroundHomeSph Excel file
https://www.scribd.com/document/366015946/351651-Freeway-Circle-Around-Home-Sph
Anybody
should be able to see the files by just going to the links. The graphs of Speed
versus Time for both the spherical and flat cases should be able to be seen
this way in addition to the links earlier in this post. To download the files
you need a Scribd account, and a regular account should be free to set up.
I was not
able to make the KML file Track-171130-210519 available through Scribd because
it is not a supported file type.
I encourage
people all over the world to take their own data and process it in this manner
and report their results. Let me know if you have any questions. Comments are
welcome. Thank you.
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