**Ask a monkey a physics question thread**

[MadMojoMonkey]

I found a video of a flat earther debunking the round earth claims of a young earth creationist. Where is your science now, Monkey? Where is your science now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeGpxnRqjg

Science has been backing up the flat Earth hypothesis ever since Einstein taught us about space contraction.

You go past anything fast enough and that thing you pass is flat.

[OngBonga]

Science has been backing up the flat Earth hypothesis ever since Einstein taught us about space contraction.

You go past anything fast enough and that thing you pass is flat.

But it's not flat, just flatter, right?

[MadMojoMonkey]

But it's not flat, just flatter, right?

I don't think anyone is saying the Earth is a 2D surface. A shovel would disprove that one.

So IDK what you mean. Yes, it is flatter... and you can always go faster and then it would be even flatter.

If there is some finite thickness that meets your criteria of "flat," then there is some speed you could travel past the Earth which it would be flat.