Is the Earth spinning or is the Earth stationary with the
Heavens moving around it?
If you are standing on a ball that has a circumference of 24,901.46 miles at its widest point, you would have to go very high to be able to see beyond what would be the circle of your view in respect to the ball. But you would never see the other side (or back) of the ball curving inwards, as it extends away from you. At best all you would see is the circumference, which would present as a circle; the circle of the Earth.
Remember though, that which is afar off is not able to be seen by the naked eye for its range has a limit, ever for farsighted individuals. Even if we could see the circumference of the Earth, we would not be able to see the other side. The circumference would be the perimeter what we could see of the planet. Like the full moon, it would appear round.
A significant feature of planet Earth that is missing when looking at the moon is we do not a blue hue surrounding its rim.
However, the real issue might be whether the Earth is spinning, but if not, this would mean that the Heavens are spinning around the Earth.
A plane flying at, say, 500 mph would take four hours to cover 2000 miles going in any direction due East or due West if the Earth is not spinning.
If the Earth spins at 1000 mph East to West, an airplane flying in the same direction would not be able to keep up at 500 mph, once having become airborne. After 2 hours the airplane would be 1000 miles behind.
Flying from West to East, the 2000 miles between the same two locations would take just over an hour. For in an hour the Earth would have spun 1000 miles towards the airplane, which would have flown 500 miles towards its destination. The next 500 miles would see the airplane reach its destination in 20 mins — if it doesn't slow down to land.
In the event air travel was very quick when traveling West to East but longer traveling East to West, nearly everyone would always fly in an easterly direction. This would be the case when traveling North or South by air, as in Southeast or Northeast.
What really happens when people fly 2000 miles East to West at 500 mph.?
Say the time is 12.00 midday. They will arrive at the destination around 2 hours later, even though the flight time is four hours. When they fly the opposite direction West to East, they will leave at 12.00 and arrive some 6 hours later. This informs us that if planet Earth is not spinning, at least, the Heavens are moving around the Earth, once every 24 hours.
The distance from Perth to Sydney is approximately 3280 kilometers that is 2038 miles, and the airplane trip takes about 4 hours 10 minutes. However, watches will need to be adjusted to show 6 hours 10 minutes. The overnight Perth to Sydney airplane leaves around 12.00 midnight and arrives sometime after 6.10 am.
This corresponds to what we can call International Standard Time (aka + or — Greenwich Mean Time), that is, local time, and also to the Heavens moving around the Earth.
However, if travelling West from the East by airplane at 500 mph, and the Earth were spinning at 1000 mph, we would not reach a destination traveling West, for we would be travelling backwards due to the speed of the airplane being less than that of the spin of the planet. The villages, towns, cities, countries and continents behind us would pass us below. This does not happen, which suggests that the Earth is not spinning.
When people travel from Perth to Singapore, they are in the same time zone, even though there's about 48 minutes difference between the two in terms of the Sun's movement West.
Perth has a longitude of 115o and Singapore 103o. Every 15o longitude is equivalent to an hour's movement by the Sun westward over the planet Earth.
The flight route is 2418 miles (about 3,891 km) and takes just over 5 hours. If the Earth were spinning, by the time the plane got to where Singapore was supposed to be, it would be some 5000 miles to the West. Singapore is on the equator where we are led to believe that the Earth's surface is spinning at nearly 1040 mph. Yet this is not what appears to be happening. There seems to be more evidence that the Earth is not spinning, that it is stationary and not moving at all.
According to the experts, the Earth supposedly spins at 1037.5 mph at the equator. This suggests that at the equator it covers the 24,901.461 miles once every 24 hours.
You would think that a helicopter hovering above a building in Singapore would have to allow for the speed of the Earth's spin, but it does not. This seems to indicate that the Earth is not spinning.
The argument for the helicopter not having to allow for the Earth's spin is the effect observed when traveling inside a train carriage or plane's cabin. You can throw an object up six foot perpendicular off the floor and it will land directly back in your hand. But if you did this while standing outside on a moving train or plane, the object would fall down but you would no longer be in the same position to catch it.
Newton's first law of motion apparently describes this effect. This law states:
In an inertial frame of reference, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force. — Wikipedia.
There is no force acting upon the objects in the confined spaces, so they are inert and become part of the space.
Bear in mind we are not talking about wind because this is a force that will affect flying objects or even cause objects to fly. We are talking about the space above the Earth known as its atmosphere.
The Earth's atmosphere would need a ceiling if this effect of inertia is to apply when standing on the surface of the planet, for it has to be contained within a confined space. If there is no ceiling, there is nothing to contain the contents within that which is being spun--in this case the atmosphere of the Earth.
If the Earth is spinning, as we are told, and we are not affected by the spin, Newton's first law of motion would describe the reason this is so. This being the case, the Van Allen Belts would have to be the ceiling of the Earth's atmosphere.
The Van Allen Belts are approximately 40,000ms (60,000kms) thick and begin at 600ms (960kms) above the Earth. These thick belts must envelope the Earth completely and protect it from any external projectiles, such as comets, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, etc. The Van Allen Belts would also seal the atmosphere of the Earth within its inner borders, so that none escaped and lowered the oxygen levels for animals, birds, fish and humans or the carbon dioxide levels essential for plant life.
If the Van Allen Belts enable whatever is within the spinning Earth's atmosphere to act in the same way loose objects do within a airplane's cabin or the carriage of a train, this means that it is unlikely anyone or anything has passed through them. For to create a passageway through these Van Allen Belts would probably do the same as knocking out a window of the cabin of an airplane and letting the oxygen escape. This also interferes with the effect of inertia, as the cabin is no longer a closed container. The reason seatbelts are worn in airplanes.
Much of our information comes from NASA, when it comes to what is above and surrounds the Earth. Can we trust NASA? Not really.
Nobody who works at NASA does so just for the money. Not everyone working at NASA is a volunteer either, even if there may be some individuals who like shining buckles for personal pride and satisfaction.
We are told that NASA is apportioned $8+ billion in the 2023/24 US Federal Budget. We are not to believe that $400+ billion in yearly federal government expenditure is connected with NASA. Neither are we to believe anyone telling us that the space agency receives, by far, more funding than any other government agency or department. We have to believe the government's figures forecast. Let's face it. Figures are fudged all the time. Never by the government, though; its workers always tell the truth.
What do you think?
