In your (flat) world lunar eclipses don't occur because that would require the earth (which is flat) to have the moon (which might be flat) to be in the earths shadow. Is the sun flat too?
Ok so some of the physics you learnt you would have to assume is wrong. For example, light would need to bend away from the flat surface of the earth.
The moon is just far enough along the plane for the light from the sun to have been bent enough so that non will fall apon the moon good science is about proving that something we believe to be true isn't
And the world was never proved not to be flat, (Which we belived), all that was shown was that if it was a globe it made it easier to explian things, but that didnt prove it was a globe In either case, it is a piece of cake to prove the Earth is flat
I assume thats a typo, but either way its not a piece of cake to prove either. Just go to the seaside and look at the horizon.
Ok so some of the physics you learnt you would have to assume is wrong. For example, light would need to bend away from the flat surface of the earth.
since we know it rotates around its own axis (as demonstrated by Foucault's pendulum)
Nope, that doesnt prove that the world as an axis, just that it is spinning. it is through observation, quite clear that the Earth is indeed not flat.
Only, and I say again Only, if the metric is constant , (Which we cannot prove either way) geosynchronous orbits wouldn't be possible if the world was flat
For a globe geosynchronous orbits is where the "Object" falls toward the earth at the same rate that the earth spins. For a flat earth geosynchronous orbit is where the object is high enough in the sky for the gravitional pull of the earth to equal that of the rest of the universe. A bit higher and it gets "Pulled" away from the earth, a bit lower and it falls towards itIf we accept the premise that the simplest solution to a problem is the correct one, then the world is a globe. This does not prove it is a globe. But once accepted other things (Such as gravity and therefore orbits) became easier to explain. This unfortunatly didnt prove that the earth was a globe. Everything that has been shown to work with a Globe earth, also works with a Flat earth, just with a lot more topological transformations. The only problem would be that there needs to be a point of the Globes surface at infinity, which is why I keep saying the only way to prove the earth not flat is to be at every point of it at the same time. (And saying we have been to every point of it doesnt work, cos just like Quantum the observer changes the point). Foucault's pendulum does imply that this point changes from (In the globe model), pole to pole as we approach each pole (or approach infinity), and was to be honest the best "It must be a globe" argument put forward, but can still be explained by the flipping of the infinate point.