The convention saw flat-Earthers, skeptics, and the flat Earth-curious gather in the city of Birmingham, U.K. At the event, conference speaker Darren Nesbit sought to address one of the most obvious problems with flat Earth claimswhy people dont just fall off the edge of the planet if they travel too far in one direction.
We know that continuous east-west travel is a reality, he said, according to the Telegraph. No one has ever come to, or crossed a physical boundary.
The best explanation isn't a curved, globe-shaped Earth, Nesbit thinks. Instead, it could be something more like teleportation. Yes, you read that right. Teleportation.
Like Pac-Man himself, who reappears on one side of the game screen having exited on the other, objects would be transported from one edge of the flat Earth to the opposite edge. Describing this as a logical possibility for truly free thinkers, Nesbit explained, Space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect.
This theory states that the Earth is flat, and we are able to travel 'around' it in the same way that Pacman moves instantly from the top to the bottom of the screen, or from one side to the other. In the Pacman game, this is achieved by using a hypothetical higher dimension, in this case the third dimension.
As it happens, this has been well studied in the field of mathematics known as topology. Topologists even have a name for this higher dimensional topology, which shows that the flat earthers are close to exposing the truth.
The name of the topology?
It's called a sphere.
