Illuminati Hand Seen in "Flat Earth" Conspiracy

Dear L.C. Vincent:

Arthur Schopenauer famously said that “all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” The truth of the flat earth is now in the ridicule stage. You are apparently one of the ridiculers. You characterize belief in a flat, stationary earth “primitive stupidity” and a “pernicious and preposterous meme.”

Before I continue, I have a confession to make. I once believed in a spinning, globular earth, just as you do now. However, I thoroughly studied the evidence. I invite you to do the same. The evidence drew me to the ineluctable conclusion that the earth is a not a moving globe.

It is obvious from your article that you did not read my book. My book presents irrefutable proof that the earth is flat and immovable. Had you actually read the book, you might have a different opinion. You make a number of fallacious claims that you imply are universal views among all flat earthers. You have imputed to me erroneous views about the flat earth, such as a belief that “[w]hat causes objects to fall down to the ground is … the continuous thrust of our Flat Earth into an upward trajectory.” I never made any such statement in my book or anywhere else. That ridiculous statement can be traced to Daniel Shenton. His statement can only be properly characterized as disinformation, which apparently you favor.

Since you apparently have not read my book, and therefore do not know my views on gravity, I will explain them to you now. What causes objects to fall to the ground is density. People and objects are heavier than the air and therefore do not float off the ground. There are some gasses, of course, that are lighter than air, and they float off the ground. Everyone has seen helium balloons float up in the air. Everyone understands that helium balloons are not some sort of anti-gravity devices; they float up in the air, because helium is lighter than air. Why do people not understand that apples fall from trees to the ground, not because of gravity, but because apples are denser than air? They believe in the mystical force of gravity, not because it has been proven true, but because they have been brainwashed into believing in it. Gravity does not exist.

Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity was conjured up in order to explain how things could stick to a spinning, spherical earth. Aren’t you the least bit curious why the supposed force of gravity has never been measured or manifested in any way in any experiment? The problem with the gravitational theory is that according to that theory, the gravitational attraction to the earth by all persons and objects remains the same at all places on the earth. That means that the gravitational force at the North Pole is the same as the gravitational force at the equator. That poses a very real problem if the earth is spinning as alleged. That is because the centrifugal force decreases every mile toward the north pole, where the centrifugal force is ultimately reduced to zero, because the North Pole is the axis of the supposedly spinning earth. On a globe, as you travel north or south of the equator the circumference parallel to the equator becomes less. That means that the speed of the earth’s spin at those more northern and southern latitudes from the equator would be slower than its speed of spin at the equator. For example, at the 45 degree north latitude, the earth’s spin should be approximately 700 miles per hour. One hundred feet from the North Pole, the earth’s spin should be reduced to one quarter mile per hour (1,308 feet per hour).

As the speed of the spin is reduced, so also is the correlative centrifugal force. What is the amount of decrease of the centrifugal force between the equator to one hundred feet of the North Pole? There would be a 4,000 fold reduction (1,000 MPH vs. ¼ MPH) in centrifugal force from the equator to a point one hundred feet of the North Pole. That means, assuming (as is required by the theory of gravity) that the force of gravity remains constant over the entire surface of the earth, a 175 pound man at the equator would weigh 700,000 pounds if he traveled to within 100 feet of the North Pole. Assuming the earth is spinning, the decrease in the centrifugal force as one approaches the North Pole, means that a person would be crushed by the force of gravity, before he ever reached the North Pole. The spinning earth and the mystical force of gravity are thus proven to be preposterous fictions.

My book addresses evidence. My hope is that you decide to leave the tranquility of disinformation, and endeavor to study the evidence. An honest man who is shown to be wrong must either admit his error or cease to be honest. Are you an honest man?

Edward Hendrie
Author of “The Greatest Lie on Earth: Proof That Our World Is Not a Moving Globe”