flat EARTH exercise

If I'm going to pretend that the Earth is flat, I'm sure not going to be bound by the laws of physics in my fantasy.

When your career is already flat, it never hurts to claim that the earth is flat, at least that gets your name into the Media.

That is actually an interesting question. The answer is that assuming Earth is a disk, the gravity would be stronger in the center than at the edges. This could be easily calculated using first year calculus.

Something tells me that most flat earthers are not big into calculus.

I was actually working on this a little. It would be an interesting setting for a science fiction story.

Obviously if you stood on the edge of the disk (i.e. the side of the disk), gravity would be pulling you toward the center. You would walk horizontally compared to someone at the center. Near the edges, you would feel that you were on the side of a very steep mountain since gravity would be pulling you, mostly horizontally, toward the center.

I might write this story.

And if the disk were massive enough and the disk structurally weak enough it would collapse in on itself and form a... wait for it... wait... ... ... a Sphere! OMG.

In science fiction.... I am allowed to break a few basic rules . I am going to propose a material that has properties to allow it to maintain it's structure.

And the whole thing will be on the back of a turtle... just because that mythological construct has always amused me.

Very rational of you