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Old 17-05-2015, 01:26 PM
N1 (Mirko)
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Assuming the Earth is a true sphere we can measure the circumferential distance C travelled. Since the pathway takes on a great circle, the radius r is simply C/2*pi.
This also the radius of the Earth which has surface area of 4*pi*r^2 which is finite.
I'm aware of the formula. Do we know what exactly pi is?

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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
The difference here is the evidence itself rules out the Universe as a 3-sphere.
Sounds like it's all done and dusted then & any researchers still working on this particular problem would be wasting their time.