Flat Earth for Dummies 101 Definition of Dummy: Indoctrinated in Globe from Birth Elaine Chadwick Clanton Author of Murder and Marcella Copyright © 2018 Elaine Chadwick Clanton All rights reserved. ISBN: 9781720294757 DEDICATION To my husband, Jimmy, who always supports me in all my projects. Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Curvature 10 Chapter 2 Science 23 Chapter 3 Antarctica 31 Chapter 4 Electromagnetism 46 Chapter 5 Circumnavigation 61 Chapter 6 Under the Dome 82 Chapter 7 Space Travel 103 Chapter 8 The Sun 134 Chapter 9 The Moon 154 Chapter 10 Gravity 166 Chapter 11 Tides 182 Chapter 12 Astronomy 192 Chapter 13 Meteors 214 Chapter 14 Extraterrestrials 236 Chapter 15 Religion 250 Chapter 16 Freemason 266 Chapter 17 The ISS 278 Chapter 18 Why the Heliocentric Subterfuge? 301 Appendix A Recommended You Tube Video Channels 322 Appendix B Recommended Reading List 326 Appendix C Metric Conversion 329 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to all the Flat Earthers who have come before me, especially Mark Sargent, whose interview on Coast to Coast AM led me to research Flat Earth, and Patricia Steere, whose kind words encouraged me. INTRODUCTION BECOMING A FLAT EARTHER Just exactly how do you become an advocate of the flat earth theory? The answer is: RESEARCH FLAT EARTH My personal experience began when I listened to an episode of Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Mark Sargent, author, You Tube video personality, and flat earth advocate since 2014, was interviewed, and his flat earth theory fascinated me. Subsequently, I ordered his book and several others, subscribed to You Tube Red, and watched countless videos on the subject. In the process, I drove my husband crazy with the TV on You Tube until he realized I might be onto something. Now he is onboard with this book project. My interest in this subject is purely secular, although I recognize that many flat earthers base their beliefs on the Bible. Most certainly you are living on either a spherical earth or a flat earth. Both can be defined as “round.” As children of both the 20th and 21st centuries, we have been taught in our society and educational institutions that we live on a “round,” meaning spherical planet. So indoctrinated are we that the very mention of the possibility of a flat earth invites sneers and giggling. Such a reaction is entirely understandable. We see the spherical earth all around us: in classrooms, in sci-fi such as Star Trek, Star Wars, and comics, such as Superman. At the moment I am writing this, I’m sitting at a desk in a suite on the Celebrity Infinity cruise ship. On a corner table to my right is a globe. Even on vacation I can’t get away from the globe. (See Below) We don’t question the globe concept because we regard it as a given. But sometimes “givens” are questioned. Today’s paradigm may not be the paradigm of tomorrow. You may have heard the ironic quote attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US Patent Office in 1899: Everything that can be invented has been invented. In the everchanging environment of today’s world, we certainly snicker at that concept. The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer characterized truth as passing through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. In other words, the paradigm of the moment is ultimately relegated to an antiquated role in which it is viewed as the product of lesser men. Paradigm in this instance is defined as the “world view underlying the theories and