Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
The flat Earth community revealed some of its latest theories and breakthroughs at its first U.K. convention last weekend.
Over three days, about 200 believers, among them IT professionals and an educational worker, met at an upscale Birmingham hotel to share the latest flat Earth theories, buy merchandise (think “Flat Power” T-shirts), and enjoy the company of fellow believers.
“People are waking up,” said event organizer Gary John, adding the community has been experiencing an “explosion of interest.”
That seems true. The average number of online searches for “flat Earth” has increased by a factor of 10 since 2014, according to Google Trends. Those searches yield a variety of theories about the true shape of the Earth. Some say the flat Earth is surrounded by a giant ice wall. Some argue Earth is a disc that’s protected by an invisible dome called the firmament.
Darren Nesbit, a speaker at the convention believes Earth is shaped like a diamond and supported by pillars, with the North and South poles in opposite corners.
“I’m not saying this is definitely what is going on, but I think it is a plausible model,” he said.
Nesbit also proposed an explanation for how planets move in the sky above the flat Earth.
“One logical possibility for those who are truly free thinkers is that space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect,” he told the convention, suggesting that planets in the sky teleport from one side of the Earth to the next once they reach the horizon, like Pac-Man characters do when they move off the left side of the screen and then appear instantly on the right.
Creative commons
The convention’s boldest claim came from David Marsh, a manager at the NHS Supply Chain head office in Alfreton, Derbyshire.
“My research destroys Big Bang cosmology,” Marsh said. “It supports the idea that gravity doesn’t exist and the only true force in nature is electromagnetism.”
Marsh claimed that a year-long experiment he conducted in his back garden using a smartphone app and a camera has disproven the accepted laws of planetary motion.
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