Flat Earth Vocabulary

Flat Earth Vocabulary

A

Al Jadi - Pole Star, or Polaris in Arabic.

Aldrin, Buzz – Was the second person to not walk on the moon

Analemma – A graph of the position of the sun in the sky at a certain time of day (as noon) at one locale measured throughout the year that has the shape of a figure 8.

Antarctica – Is the ice continent that surrounds our flat Earth.

Arctic – Is the magnetic north centre of our flat earth, surrounded by ice.

Armstrong, Neil – In 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man to NOT go to have gone to the moon.

Azimuth - The azimuth is the angle between the north vector and the perpendicular projection of the star down onto the horizon. Azimuth is usually measured in degrees (°). The concept is used in navigation, astronomy, engineering, mapping, mining and artillery.

Azimuthal Equidistant projection – Or AE for short,  is an an Azimuthal

flat earth map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point.

B

Bedford Level Experiment - was a series of observations carried out along a six-mile (9.7 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level, Norfolk, England, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was an attempt to determine the shape of the Earth. The results indicated that the Earth was flat.

Bird, Admiral - was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.

Bioluminescence- is the production and emission of light by a living organism. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine vertebratesand invertebrates, as well as in some fungi, microorganisms including some bioluminescent bacteria and terrestrial invertebrates such as fireflies.

Black Sun – Is also known as Rahu in Vedic astrology, and in the flat Earth model it is believed to be the cause of the eclipses.

Buoyancy - The ability or tendency of something to float in water or other fluid. Could also apply to gasses.

C

CGI – Stands for computer generated images.

Captain Cook - was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made supposedly detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean.

Circumnavigation - Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around an island, continent, or (usually) the entire planet, however on a flat earth model, it is thought that ships are simply circling our flat plane earth.

Cognitive Dissonance - In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency (dissonance) tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance—as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it.

Copernicus - was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than the Earth at the centre of the universe.

Crepuscular rays (also known as sunbeams, Sun rays or God rays), in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds (particularly stratocumulus) or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. Despite seeming to converge at a point, the rays are apparently in fact near-parallel shafts of sunlight, and their apparent convergence is a perspective effect (similar, for example, to the way that parallel railway lines seem to converge at a point in the distance).

Curvature – A theoretical curve that is meant to exist on a globe earth model, but actually doesn't exist at all.

Cymatics, from meaning "wave", is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenn. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste or liquid. Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.

D

Dome – It is believed by many in the flat earth model that there is a dome above the earth. This is also spoken about in the bible and is also referred to as the 'firmament'.

E

Earth is not a Globe – Is a book written by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, under the pseudonym 'Parallax', lectured for two decades up and down Britain promoting his unique flat earth theory. In this book he lays out the 'world' system.

Eclipse - An obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination. It is believed in the flat earth model that this is caused by 'Rahu', in Vedic astrology or the Black Sun.

Einstein Albert – Born 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. And devised the space-time theory alongside other theories.

Equator - An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles. The Equator usually refers to the Earth's equator (on paper).

Escaped Velocity - In physics, escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for an object to "break free" from the supposed 'gravitational attraction' of a massive body. The escape velocity from Earth is apparently about 40,270 km/h (25,020 mph) or 7 miles per second.

F

Fish Eye Lens – A fisheye lens is an ultra wide angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image.

Flat Earth – A geocentric alternative to the heliocentric brainwashing of the last 500 years.

Firmament - The firmament is the structure above the atmosphere, conceived as a vast solid dome. According to the Genesis creation narrative, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from the "waters below" the earth. It is believed by many in the flat earth community but there is debate.

F Fred Espenak - is a retired^[1] Americanastrophysicist. He worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is best known for his work on eclipse predictions.

He became interested in astronomy when he was 7–8 years old, and had his first telescope when he was around 9–10 years old. 

G

Galileo - was an Italian stronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher,and mathematician during the Renaissance.

Game Of Thrones - is an American fantasy drama television series, with a theme based around an iced wall.

Geocentric – In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, or the Ptolemaic system) is a description of the cosmos where Earth is at the orbital center of all celestial bodies.

Geometry - is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.

Globe – is the fictitious third 'planet' from the Sun, the densest 'planet' in the Solar system.

Go Pro Camera – A type of camera which uses a fish eye lens for balloon and rocket launches to view the earth, amongst other uses.

Golden Peg – Another word for Polaris.

Gravity -  is apparently a natural phenomena by which all things with mass are brought towards (or 'gravitate' towards) one another including stars, planets and galaxies.

Great Rift - In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Side, Dark Rift, or, less commonly, Dark River) is a series of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds that are located between the Solar System and the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy at a distance of (apparently) about 100 parsecs or about 300 light years (2×10¹⁵ miles or 3×10¹⁵ kilometers) from Earth. The clouds are estimated to contain about 1 million solar masses of plasma and dust (according to the heliocentric model which has been shown to be inaccurate from many perspectives).

H

Helical – Is a curve in a three dimensional space. An example would be DNA or a spiral stair case, etc. 

Heliocentric - is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System. It means 'sun centre' in greek.

Horizon – The Horizon or skyline is the apparent line that separates earth from sky.

Hypothesis -  is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it.

I

Ice Wall - the Ice Wall is a 150-foot-tall (46 m) wall that encloses the perimeter of a flat, circular earth. The Ice Wall explains why the ocean doesn't fall off the edge of the world on the flat earth.

Infinitely Flat Plane – It is believed by some in the flat earth community that beyond the ice wall, the earth may be infinitely flat, however more investigation is needed to make any solid conclusions.

J

Al Jadi – Polaris in Arabic

Jesuits – An organization that some believe to be behind the faking of our flat Earth.

K

Kepler – 1571 –1630, German astronomer who discovered of Kepler's laws of 'planetary' motion he is regarded as one of the founders of modern astronomy.

He was also believed to have murdered Tycho Brahe, a flat earth astronomer who took him on as his apprentice.

L

Latitude – The angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the Earth's surface.

Loran - (short for long range navigation), was a hyperbolic radio navigationsystem developed in the United States during World War II. It was similar to the UK's Gee system but operated at lower frequencies in order to provide an improved range up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km) with an accuracy of tens of miles. It was first used for ship convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and then by long-range patrol aircraft, but found its main use on the ships and aircraft operating in the Pacific theatre. 

M

Mercator Map - a map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to each other and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator.

Michelson-Morley Experiment – an experiment first performed in 1887 by A. A. Michelson and E. W.Morley, in which an interferometer was used to attempt to detect a difference in the velocities of light in directions parallel and perpendicular to the earth's motion.

Midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the local summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or allegedly south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the summer solstice (approximately 21 June in the north and 22 December in the south) the sun is visible for the full 24 hours, given fair weather. It has been demonstrated that footage of 24 hour sun in Antarctica have been fabricated.

Mirage - an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air. It is important to note that Mirages are always upside down.

Mount Meru -is a sacred mountain with five peaks in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual Universes. Mount Meru is believed to be in the centre of the 'North' pole.

N

Nautical Miles – A measurement used at sea which equates to 1.852 km.

Neil De Grass Tyson - is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator, and a bit of a blagger 'cause he says the Earth is the shape of a pear.

Newton, Issac -  was an English physicist and mathematician. He came up with the Laws of motion and universal gravitation, which have dominated scientists' view of the physical Universe for the next three centuries.

Nicolas Tesla – was an Austrian physicist, inventor and electrical engineer best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current, (AC) electricity supply system.

N-vector is a three parameter non-singular horizontal position representation well-suited for replacing latitude and longitude in mathematical calculations and computer algorithms. Geometrically, it is a unit vector that is normal to the reference ellipsoid. The vector is decomposed in an Earth centered earth fixed coordinate system. It behaves the same at all Earth positions, and it holds the mathematical one-to-one property.

O

Oblate Spheroid – Certain individuals now believe the Earth to be an oblate spheroid. (A squashed sphere, flattened at the poles), but we believe that they are running out of lies and making it up as they go along.

Orbit – In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the centre of a (theoretical) star system, such as the solar system.

P

Pear Shaped Earth – Speaks for it's self. They're running out of stories.

Perspective -  in the context of vision and visual perception, is the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes; or their dimensionsand the position of the eye relative to the objects.

Photoshop – Is a tool used by NASA to play around with fake images creating the illusion that we live on a sphere, or oblate spheroid, or pear.

Polaris – The North Star above the North pole, in which all the other stars circle around.

Q

R

Rahu – In Hindu tradition, Rahu is the severed head of an asura called Svarbhānu, that swallows the sun causing eclipses. Rahu is also known as the black sun and has been photographed in the arctic.

Refraction (Atmospheric) is the deviation of light or other electromagnetic wave from a straight line as it passes through the atmosphere due to the variation in air density as a function of altitude.

Rowbotham, Samuel, under the pseudonym 'Parallax', lectured for two decades up and down Britain promoting his unique flat earth theory. 

S

Saros 

• Saros (astronomy), an 18-year period, across which lunar and solar eclipses repeat, designed by the ancient babylonians. These Saros Cycles occur every 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours to be precise.

Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters within the altitude range 50–90 km (31–56 mi) above the Earth's surface. Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886, but they were first photographed on July 6, 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings many thousands of times.


Stellar Parallax - is parallax on an interstellar scale: the apparent shift of position of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant objects.

T

Theory - A theory provides an explanatory framework for some observation, and from the assumptions of the explanation follows a number of possible hypotheses that can be tested in order to provide support for, or challenge, the theory.

Time Lapse Photography - is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

Trigonometry - is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles. Trigonometry is useful in determining the distances of the sun moon and stars from the earth however there must first be an assumption as to whether the earth is flat or a sphere, otherwise results will be dramatically different and inaccurate, depending on what the initial assumption is.

Truman Show - The film chronicles the life of a man who is initially unaware that he is living in a constructed television show, broadcast around the clock to billions, underneath a dome.

Tycho Brahe – was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, and has been described more recently as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts. 

U

'Universe' – The Universe is apparently all of time and space and its contents. The Universe includes planets, stars, galaxies, the contents of intergalactic space, the smallest subatomic particles, and all matter and energy.

V

Vedic Cosmology – Is an ancient Cosmological system whereby the earth is thought to be flat and stationary.

W

Wandering Stars – Ancients throughout history referred to what we now believe to be 'planets', as wandering stars.

X

Y

Yin Yang – Yin is thought to be negative, dark and feminine, whilst Yang

is thought to be positive,bright, and masculine.

Their interaction is thought to maintain the harmony of the 'universe'

and to influence everything within it.

It is thought that the sun and moon follow a yin yang like path across our flat earth plane.

Z

Zetetic – proceeding by enquiry.