WHAT IF EARTH WAS FLAT?
arth – the Blue Marble – is our very much spherical home. Humankind has been aware of this for more than 2,000 years, ever since the ancient Greek academic Pythagoras proposed its spherical shape back in 500 BCE. Eratosthenes then calculated its circumference around 240 BCE. But let’s imagine that Earth is flat. After all, there are many out there who truly believe that this is the case. How would everyday life function? Would it function at all? Here we explore how much of an oddball – or ‘oddslice’ – Earth would be if it were flat and whether there are any advantages to living on a strange disc with the Sun
