Gravity Versus Lateral water Pressures

It is not often I write a post or submit an article on Goldtent that I receive negative responses. And it is even more unusual that I receive a large number of doubts let alone almost all of them! But that was certainly my recent experience after discussing personal revelations that the Earth is not a globe after all. So as a follow up I would like to propose my own quick test in order to prove that something stinks with the globe theory we have all been taught.

I am calling this the Mediterranean Pressure Conundrum.

Imagine that you are standing in the middle of the Straights of Gibraltar at sea level and looking East towards the Egyptian City of Port Said where the Mediterranean meets the mouth of the Suez Canal. It is a rough distance of 2271 Nautical miles or 2613 miles. While the sea has quite a depth of 1000 feet or more at the Gibraltar end, the waters are shallow and near sea level in Port Said where the canal depth is a mere 40 feet.

There are only three main exits from the Mediterranean in any event and all three are extremely narrow meaning that excess water (if any) would be forced through their passages with the strength of a mighty river flowing down to the sea. I am sure you other Flat Earthers out there can guess where I am going with this already. The globe Earth believers keep insisting that ships disappear over the horizon and that is their primary proof the world we inhabit is round like a ball.

But they may not appreciate exactly what this idea of theirs implies in the real world where water likes to seek its own level. In order to hold the view that a ship dips below the horizon as its sails off to a foreign land is also to implicitly accept that there is a bulge in the ocean between two distant points. In other words, there is a high point and there is also a low point between every two distant locations on a global body of water in order for it to be true that a ship can disappear over the horizon and fall down to a lower level.

Because if there is not a bulge then the world is flat!

To make this as easy as possible to imagine we only need to identify a closed body of water like the Mediterranean and start taking measurements of its depth and some surface distances. We will think of the Mediterranean as a very large bathtub in our scenario. It is actually a vast inland sea enclosed on all sides by land with an offering of only three narrow exits for any excess fluids.

In the real world the Mediterranean has an average depth of roughly 1500 meters or 4900 feet. And when we calculate the theoretical bulge depth based on an Earth curvature model the bulge is about 1742 feet depth when standing at either end and looking towards the furthest exit point of Port Said or Gibraltar. We know this because the curve model drops 8 inches for each mile of distance between two points. So 2613 miles x 8 inches divided by 12 gives us 1742 feet of vertical drop equivalent after the horizon has been breached. The Earth bulge is shallower than the actual average depth of the sea in our case and that is helpful because it allows a real world example to unfold without making up new facts to fit our theory.

What this is saying is that there are the equivalent of 1742 vertical feet of water height between sea level at Gibraltar and the distant surface level of Port Said or likewise a similar drop when viewing Gibraltar from Port Said. The bulge difference in depths between the two points is still 1742 feet either way and in both cases the lows are at the exits while the high point can best be imagined as the bulge in the centre.

But do you have any idea how much water pressure exists at those depths?

You see, this is where I have a problem with the globe model. It’s because of that massive bulge of water between two low points and our knowledge that water always finds its own level. Its clear that we need to ask a few more questions before just accepting the assertion there is a curve to be accounted for. The Globe adherents will tell you that gravity is the force holding the waters of the Mediterranean down like a thin blanket of liquid spread across a rounded curve of a sea across its 2613 mile length. They would also have you believe that a deep liquid bulge of water can remain intact on the Mediterranean surface and not flow away out to the exits. What is implied here is that vertical gravitational forces are stronger than lateral water pressures at depth. They actually want you to believe that water does not always lie down flat.

Does that really make any sense?

But gravity is a weak force according to its own proponents. Hydraulic pressure on the other hand makes no such claim and it is unambiguously forceful at all times. Whereas gravity is a force that acts only on the vertical, water pressure happily exerts pressure in every direction simultaneously without any special regard to the gravitational forces pressing it down from above.

So how do we account for pressures upwards of 775 pounds per square inch at depths of 1742 feet and not see a flood of water gushing through any of the primary openings of the Mediterranean sea? Why do we not see the bulge bursting its bounds and pouring untold billions of gallons of water through the shallows of the Suez Canal? For reference, German U-Boats imploded at depths of 660 feet so at triple that depth the pressure is certainly severe. Keep in mind, there is a high end and a low end in the globe Earth model so we need to account for some serious lateral water pressure at the depths in contained bodies like the Mediterranean.

At this point I might just as well answer my own questions. There is no bulge. And there is no high end or low end in the Mediterranean pool nor any curve of the Earth to be accounted for nor massive hydraulic pressures threatening to flood the exits of the pool. The reason is simply because our Earth is flat and the Mediterranean is as flat as any other body of water found anywhere else on our flat world.

Both the curve and the bulge are pure unadulterated nonsense.