Quote (card_sultan @ Jan 25 2017 12:56pm)
I better show you a picture of a body of water since all you understand is a picture
http://www.tekapotourism.co.nz/accomm/images/pioneer_1.jpgThis is a body of water, even its reflection proves it flat - why dont you look up concave mirrors and see how they work, educate yourself instead of showing how your able to infer dumb things
So are you willing to admit that water isn't always flat? The point I was making is that water doesn't have some magic property of "flatness" that somehow invalidates a spherical earth. Water will assume a shape based on the forces acting on each individual molecule, and that shape can be anything.
Quote (card_sultan @ Jan 25 2017 01:27pm)
“It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space. "
said Prof Baker, who is the first author of the paper published in the journal Nature.
Maybe you can walk through impenetrable walls made of plasma and electrons that travel at the speed of light itself, maybe your shit doesn't stink either?
You don't know what plasma or electrons are (not surprisingly), so it's understandable why you'd think this. Plasma is ionized gas, so it's actually trivial for a person to pass through plasma. A sufficiently hot flame is plasma, so by jumping over a hot campfire you just "walked through impenetrable walls made of plasma".
Also, electrons do not (and cannot) travel at the speed of light. The speed of an electron orbiting a nucleus of an atom is around 1/100 of the speed of light. Electrons are also trivial to stop with a magnetic field, which a person would walk through without even noticing.