Of the idea that there are trillions of planets orbiting other stars across the universe, he said, 'No one would believe that at all.' ( NASA's current tally of confirmed planets is only 3,564.) Speaking of exoplanets, those are off the table for Davidson as well. Planets should be closer to us than other stars, he says, but, 'I think that everything is relatively close.' He didn't want to put a specific distance on it, but he said on the order of a couple thousand miles, rather than the closest star and exoplanet being four light-years away.Ī sketch of what the solar system around Proxima Centauri might look like. The universe is definitely smaller than scientists think, though, Davidson believes. 'I just don't believe that we're on a sphere.' 'I don't think it really matters too much,' he said. The sun, moon and planets, 'They appear to be spherical, they could be disks,' he added. 'I wouldn't go so far as to say everything's flat,' he said. Read more: All Hail Kronos, the Star That Eats Planets for Breakfastĭavidson says he doesn't have any sense of what planets are made of or what shape they would be. In fact, our sun is very normal and no stars twinkle, the perceived phenomenon comes from Earth's atmosphere interfering with their light.) (He also says that our sun isn't the same as other stars, since it doesn't twinkle.

'For me personally, I just see them as lights in the sky.' That belief actually harkens back to the ancient definition of planets as wandering stars, which was first recognized as incorrect by Nicholas Copernicus in 1543.ĭavidson says that means planets are kind of like stars, definitely not 'terra firma planets,' making them a set of similar-but-different stars. 'I honestly believe they exist,' Davidson, who became a Flat Earth believer about two and a half years ago, said of the other planets in our solar system. 'We don't all believe in the same model.' 'You'll find in the community, there are a lot of people that have a lot of differences,' Robbie Davidson, organizer of the Flat Earth International Conference, told Newsweek. Are they recognized as spheres or are they, too, supposed to be flat? So we found two Flat Earthers to ask-here's what we learned. We've already written about how incorrect that is, but we wondered what they thought about other planets in our celestial neighborhood. Droves of people in America continue to decide to believe the planet is flat and stationary.

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