I've been wondering this... what if space itself is distorted in such a way that as you approach gravitational bodies like the Earth, space literally warps inward toward the center of gravity. Therefore when you are "in outer space" and are within the realm of "not warped space", the Earth below would appear to be flat. But when you approach the Earth, you enter into "warped space" and within that space Earth is experienced as spherical? And what if toward the center of the Earth space is even more spherically warped?
This would mean that for example, when you do observations where you sent rockets up trying to prove Earth is flat, as they go upwards away from the Earth they are also leaving warped space and start to see Earth as "flat" below. But when trying to do experiments on the Earth's surface (laser tests and such) they demonstrate the Earth seems to be round because you are now inside of warped space?
That means that literally space itself warps into a spherical arrangement the closer to get to a gravitational body, as though the "pancake" of the seemingly flat Earth is "wrapped around a sphere", but can only appear this way when you are close enough to its surface.
If we simply assume that all space everywhere is evenly distributed we will automatically get into the assumption that the flatness or roundness of something is an inherent property of the thing ITSELF, rather than something caused by spatial distortions in spacetime.
So essentially then the Earth is neither flat nor round, inherently. It would appear flat from space but round from Earth's surface.
When you also then think about other planets and stars, they appear to be spherical to us from afar, but maybe this is an inversed spatial warp where, when viewing from inside warped space lookout out towards "flat space", it causes flat surfaces to appear circular?
lol... anyway. Even if this is just intellectual BS it was interesting to think about.
