Rebuttal to Flat Earth argument: Vacuum bottle sucking up water implies atmosphere should be gone
Kelvinsong, Earth's atmosphere, CC BY-SA 3.0 DOES SIMPLE VACUUM BOTTLE EXPERIMENT IMPLY THAT ENTIRE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUCKED INTO SPACE LONG AGO ACCORDING TO CONVENTIONAL PHYSICS MODEL? PROBLEM STATEMENT AND RESPONSE by T. Mark Hightower 9/17/2017 SUMMARY OF THIS ARGUMENT USED IN FAVOR OF FLAT EARTH THEORY First pull some significant level of vacuum in a rigid bottle. Place the bottom of the bottle into a body of water. Create a hole in the bottom of the bottle. A significant amount of water will be sucked up into the bottle above the level of the body of water. Since this vacuum sucked up water, a liquid, it would be even easier to suck up air (a gas) which is what makes up the atmosphere according to spherical earth theory. Since the atmosphere does not get sucked up into space, the spherical earth theory fails this simple thought experiment. T MARK HIGHTOWER'S RESPONSE This argument appears to make sense in a q...