wideangle wrote:
There are still people in this country that still think the world is flat, that the man on the moon mission was a made up in a hollywood studio and that Democrats are the answer to all our problems.
Are you aware that as part of understanding black holes that physicists are moving toward understanding and proving the math to demonstrate that the entire universe is a hologram projected from data/information located on a single two dimensional (flat) representation. If found to be true, that would make not only the Earth flat but everything in the Universe, as well. As was once said, it's important to remember, from time to time, that whatever you believe you might be wrong.
A PBS interview with Dr. Susskind
Leonard Susskind (Dir. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics) – long lecture - hang in there through the background info until about 40 minutes into this.