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Fighting flat-Earth theory

14 Jul 2020
Taken from the July 2020 issue of Physics World.

Physicists will find it shocking, but there are plenty of people around the world who genuinely believe the Earth is flat. Rachel Brazil explores why such views are increasingly taking hold and how the physics community should best respond

Flat Earth illustration
(Courtesy: Claus Lunau/Science Photo Library)
In 2017 the US rapper B.o.B (real name Bobby Ray Simmons Jr) started a crowd-funding campaign to lau

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Rachel Brazil is a science writer based in London, UK, Twitter @rachelbbrazil
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