The Eid holiday was extended to nine days for government agencies and many private sector workers, and people took advantage of this holiday and left Istanbul. Afterwards, Istanbul’s air pollution decreased and a significant part of the city was cleared of Bursa’s air pollution. Uludag can be seen. To that Flat Earthers said: “If the world wasn’t flat, we wouldn’t be able to see Uludağ.He claimed.

Under normal circumstances The person making a claim is required to prove it But this time let’s explain why this statement is not true. Why is the world not flat and why did we manage to see Uludağ?

Let’s take a look at the message:

First we need to study some geometry.

It won’t be too complicated, what we’re going to do is very simple. A little tangent even a little bit Pythagoras rack enough for us. The line tangent to a circle (or circle, sphere) from a single point is called tangent. The line drawn from the intersection of the tangent to the center of the circle is always perpendicular to the tangent.

Let’s come to the second point. Pythagoras to the statement. In a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the lengths of the short sides is equal to the square of the long side. If we take the place with height 0 as the short side and the top of the mountain as the long side, we can understand from what distance we can see the mountain. Please note that the observer (the person who recorded the video) is not at sea level.

What about the distance from Uludag?

The average radius of the Earth is 6378 kilometers. Uludağ is about 120 kilometers away from Istanbul. If we put the numbers in place, the summit of Uludağ can be seen from a distance of exactly 180.30 meters, if there is no other obstacle nearby. This shows that Uludağ can be seen in clean and clear weather and that the world does not have to be flat.

On the other hand, such sharing don’t pay much attention to it It is needed. Because mentioned 200 kilometers 200 kilometers by road. There is no explanation why rays of light spread across the road if the world is flat.