I see what you are trying to get at with the "scale" argument. But even if we changed the scale, by any factor, it does not affect the shape of anything, just the perception of size. Looking at the earth at a millionth, billionth, or even a trillionth scale, it is still an "Oblate Spheroid". The same as a spec of dust, even though it is almost imperceptibly tiny, we do not see it as flat.
If our planet, or even our solar system is just a spec of dust in the perception of some other massive being, it will still retain the same shape, just on a radically different scale.
I know it doesn't actually affect the shape, I just mean it's flat in some perspective that we're not able to see. So, I prefer to go against the grain and argue that OUR perception isn't the absolute rule.
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I see what you are trying to get at with the "scale" argument. But even if we changed the scale, by any factor, it does not affect the shape of anything, just the perception of size. Looking at the earth at a millionth, billionth, or even a trillionth scale, it is still an "Oblate Spheroid". The same as a spec of dust, even though it is almost imperceptibly tiny, we do not see it as flat.
If our planet, or even our solar system is just a spec of dust in the perception of some other massive being, it will still retain the same shape, just on a radically different scale.
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I know it doesn't actually affect the shape, I just mean it's flat in some perspective that we're not able to see. So, I prefer to go against the grain and argue that OUR perception isn't the absolute rule.