• Question: why isn't the world flat?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      anon answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      Because everything in the universe has gravity (even you) so when planets formed, all the atoms got pulled together to one point so a sphere formed (this is the shape where every point on the surface is the same distance from the centre)

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 22 Jun 2014:

      The earth isn’t a perfect sphere either – it flattens at the poles and bulges at the equator!

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      Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      In Discworld (a series of novels by Terry Pratchett) the world is flat. It is a big disc balancing on the back of 4 elephants which are in turn standing on the back of a giant turtle which is swimming through space.

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      Phillip Manning answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      The laws of physics dictate something other….only fiction or ignorance can provide us with a flat world.

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