How does the Flat Earth Society defy modern day physics?

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Hey guys, I was just wondering how do the beliefs of the Flat Earth Society defy against modern day physics? I'm doing a discussion board post for my physics class. I know they strictly do not believe in gravity but what else do they do against? For example about Newton's Laws, etc.

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[Chi Meson]

Hey guys, I was just wondering how do the beliefs of the Flat Earth Society defy against modern day physics? I'm doing a discussion board post for my physics class. I know they strictly do not believe in gravity but what else do they do against? For example about Newton's Laws, etc.

In short, everything. THere is an unknown percentage of the Flat-Earth Society who are simply jokesters, having fun being deliberately obtuse in order to get a rise out of people. I had a good friend who is one of these types (another thing he used to do, going on for years, is insist a certain t-shirt he used to wear says one thing ("Bombay Motorcycle Club"), when it clearly is says something else ("Indiana Motorcycle Association"), but I digress...)

You cannot claim to disbelieve gravity and the near-spherical shape of the Earth without throwing all of astrophysics (and therefore physics and therefore all science) into the dumpster.

As you learn more and more science, physics in particular, you find that all things are governed by only a handful of major principles, and the only way things can be the way they are is if all of these principles are "at work" everywhere, and all the time.