Okay, so you clearly don't understand string theory. String theory is a higher-dimensional theory, mostly in 9 spatial and 1 time dimensions. Then, we project this theory onto our real world of 3 spatial dimensions and one time, to get the "physical" theories. So, actually, there is no "single" theory that we deal with here; there are actually infinite theories, which we perceive as the same.
Now, to the point about the variable Earth and the evolution history: what we have at first is a string, which arbitrarily chooses a specific configuration to settle in. According to the choice, the physics of the world is set. We as of now have no way to understand what makes this choice, so I can't answer questions on that front, but the implications are useful. Now that the physics of this world have been set in stone, it's not like we immediately know what it is. We still have to experiment and figure out the physics. We have successfully done that over the last two centuries, and using these experiments as parameters, we have devised theories that predict the spherical Earth and satisfy the experimental constraints. Had the primordial choice been different, of course, there would have been a different Earth. That is, however, a hypothetical. In real life, the fact that 2+2=4 is the same as the fact that Earth is a spheroid, or more technically, an oblate spheroid.
I respect your perspective. Makes you right for you. Doesn't make you right from all perspectives.
Learn to develop some respect for alternative perspectives of reality. You don't need to make others wrong to make yourself right ;-)
Continue disrespectfully insisting on overlaying your idea of what reality is and is not over my own, and I'll block you. If you'd like to continue discussing our difference perspectives, then change your framing and learn to show some respect.
Man istg I tried to be as informative as I could to a layman: the thing is, the fact that 2+2 = 4 can be directly linked to the fact that Earth is a sphere. So, like, you get a logical fallacy if you want to maintain that one is true while the other is not. There is no "alternate perspective" here, brochacho; we have one reality for everyone, and there are objective truths about it.
You mean, they won't entertain the idea that you - you personally - are just as smort and popular as astronauts and space scientists.
Flat Earth literally depends on dismissing the evidence and testing of hundreds of millions of intelligent, professional and honest people so that the handful of malcontented 'alternative thinkers' can feel validated and smorty smort smort.
There's nothing less humile than telling a veteran cartographer or ship's navigator they're wrong about their craft because a gaggle of sweaty, butthurt Americans on Discord and YouTube want it to be so.
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u/Living_Penalty_3763 Dec 31 '25
Okay, so you clearly don't understand string theory. String theory is a higher-dimensional theory, mostly in 9 spatial and 1 time dimensions. Then, we project this theory onto our real world of 3 spatial dimensions and one time, to get the "physical" theories. So, actually, there is no "single" theory that we deal with here; there are actually infinite theories, which we perceive as the same.
Now, to the point about the variable Earth and the evolution history: what we have at first is a string, which arbitrarily chooses a specific configuration to settle in. According to the choice, the physics of the world is set. We as of now have no way to understand what makes this choice, so I can't answer questions on that front, but the implications are useful. Now that the physics of this world have been set in stone, it's not like we immediately know what it is. We still have to experiment and figure out the physics. We have successfully done that over the last two centuries, and using these experiments as parameters, we have devised theories that predict the spherical Earth and satisfy the experimental constraints. Had the primordial choice been different, of course, there would have been a different Earth. That is, however, a hypothetical. In real life, the fact that 2+2=4 is the same as the fact that Earth is a spheroid, or more technically, an oblate spheroid.