That every astronaut is a faker.īut to flat Earthers, a small but growing subculture, you cannot shake their belief. You might think it would be easy to shoot down a theory that says Earth is a flat, immobile disc covered by a dome. Though many flat-Earth beliefs have religious overtones, no organized religious denominations currently embrace flat Earth beliefs, according to attendees at the Flat Earth International Conference. Gravity, in this worldview, does not exist - instead objects are drawn “downward” and “upward” by buoyancy and density. What lies above the dome and below the Earth is a mystery. Antarctica, in this view, is not a continent, but a wall of ice that surrounds and holds in the oceans.
Though beliefs vary, the most widely held viewpoint among flat Earthers, according to popular YouTube videos by flat-Earth leaders like Mark Sargent and Eric Dubay, posits that Earth is a flat disc covered by an unbreakable dome. Today’s flat Earthers employ a variety of methods to support their beliefs, poring over footage from spacecraft and performing experiments with everything from powerful lasers to high-end cameras in pursuit of incontrovertible evidence that the earth doesn’t curve. The modern flat-Earth movement has its origins in 19th century England, according to Garwood, popularized by writer Samuel Rowbotham, who performed an experiment watching boats travel down the Thames River that he said proved the Earth had no curvature. Though ancient societies believed Earth was flat, the idea of a spherical Earth was familiar to the ancient Greeks, according to “Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea" by Christine Garwood.
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