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The size of body should be reduced to half if it is allowed to fall from a height of 6400 km. and it should be converted into a point if unfortunately it reaches the earth's centre. But in practice we do not find any of the falling body to reduce in its size due to gravitational attraction. On the other hand, we find that all falling bodies maintain their original sizes no matter they are allowed to fall on the earth's surface or even inside the earth. Practical experience of falling bodies leads us to the conclusion that there is no such centre of our earth towards which all falling bodies might be moving. Since all falling bodies are found to maintain their original sizes, there seems no reason to believe that gravitational forces of our earth meet in a point and hence are converging. On the other hand, there are reasons to believe that the gravitational forces of our earth are perfectly parallel to each other not only outside the earth but also inside it. A system of perfectly parallel gravitational forces can be had only by a FLAT earth and not by a spherical one. This is the justification for holding our earth FLAT.
In initial days of my studies, I was very much keen to learn how the modern science has explained the motion of falling bodies along converging lines of gravitational forces. For this, I consulted a number of books on Mechanics. I found that it can not do so. It also requires parallelism in gravitational forces for doing so. But its concept of parallelism is very interesting. It says that the gravitational forces of the spherical earth meet in a point at a large distance of 6400 k.m. and so there is no harm if such forces are taken as parallel to each other for all falling bodies. In my opinion, this sort of man-made parallelism is of no use in practice, If our earth is really a spherical body and its gravitational forces meet in a point, modern science should attempt to explain that falling bodies can possibly maintain their sizes even on moving along converging lines of gravitational forces.
Motion of falling bodies is called TRANSLATIONAL MOTION in modern science. In translational motion all of the parts of a moving body move along perfectly parallel lines and with one speed. If this body is forced to move along coverging lines, it would either contract in its size or it would not move at all if it is rigid. Since all falling bodies are mostly rigid, there is no possibility of their motion under the action of gravity if the forces of gravity are converging. Nonrigid or compressible bodies might do so. This being a truth, the gravitational fields of all spherical bodies--no matter it is spherical earth or spherical moon--are unsuitable for motion of the falling bodies. The defect of unparallelism in their gravitational forces can not be removed by holding their gravitational forces as parallel to each other.
So many people are heard to say that Apollo Flights have proved our earth a spherical body without any doubt. But this idea is quite misleading. The place where the Apollo crafts landed had perfectly parallel lines of gravitational forces; otherwise they could not land. This being the case, that place was certainly a part of FLAT EARTH and not the spherical moon. The Apollo Flights in this way
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