wolfy

Because it is still under pressure, albeit much less pressure. Remember, we cannot make a true vacuum no matter how hard we try. The true vacuum is outside the dome, which we see as blackness, devoid of matter. Anything in that true vacuum is basically in suspended animation, which is what Earth is, as a whole. No free continuous movement, just expansion and retraction of Earth's own energy.

I have. I told you it's a push on push effect. Denpressure. Basically it's pressure acting upon any dense object or body of water, etc. If you push something against the atmospheric pressure it pushes right back in equal terms . Action/reaction.

still don't know what you're trying to say. I'll be back later to explain it all.

No. I said water runs to the sea from land. The sea is in the bowl.

It wouldn't explode but it wouldn't be very happy with you.

If your Earth is a rotating globe in space with gravity, then I'm not going to make any sense at all. Just use what I'm saying as a light musing for yourself and try and see if you can grasp some of it and you never know, it could get you thinking or at least questioning some of what you were told. It's not easy for anyone to go aganst what we were all taught, I understand that.

What is centre side?

Correct. The higher you go, the less atmospheric pressure there is. You can easily feel this just by going up or down hill in your car. Your ears feel the pressure gain or drop.

I'll sketch some out in time and show you what I talking about.

No. Think of it like a long mound of mud that slopes to the sea.

Why would it be deeper at it's rim side?

Yes but the mast is higher, which means you are looking higher up through less dense air. It might not appear much to your thought or anyone elses but the air at your feet is a lot more dense than the air on your head. This is not noticed much at close quarters but will be very noticable over distance, which is why the light from the ships hull disappears from your view before the mast.

We tip all ways. We are an island.

At sea level the atmosphere is dense. Higher up it's thinner, as you know. It's why you can see things in the sky a lot higher up than you could if you were looking from eye level horizon.

Atmospheric pressure. The very same thing that acts on your sink of water when you pull out the plug. It's not the water running down the plug hole. It's being pushed down the plug hole by the atmospheric pressure, just as you are pushed to the floor under it, yet we don't think about it because we are adapated to it. Have you ever carried a window pane with a window clamp? It's called a sucker but it's doing no sucking. It clamps to the window because you robbed the cup of the air inside it which is now pushing back onto that clamp, because the air that is left inside of the clamp, which is very little, needs to be equalised with the 15 psi of pressure outside, so the pressure clamps it by trying to equalise it but can't due to the clamp being a perfect air tight cover.

It does pool. it flows to the oceans which is a massive pool. It's like pouring water onto a dinner plate. It will gather in the centre until if fills up to the sides, which to you would be the beach tide.

It's thicker because there's more of it over distance. Think of it like looking through a single window pane. Easy and clear to see, right? Now add more panes to that wndow pane. It gets thicker, naturally and your vision isn't quite as clear as it was. Keep adding those panes and eventually it becomes translucent, then opaque. The atmosphere is sort of like that.

Rvers flow into oceans because the land and mountains allow it to flow on a gradient to the ocean bowl.

Correct.

because you are looking through thicker atmosphere over distance. The horizon is always at your eye line. If you see a ship and mast and the ship disappears before the mast, it's because the light to your eyes in that thicker atmosphere has diminished, leaving the higher mast visible because you are looking through slightly less thickness of atmosphere. If you require more explanation I'll give you it.

Like I said: if you believe that, then fine. I know you can't see any curvature, so we will have to agree to disagree on this.

I don't see how you get to the conclusions you just made. Explain it one piece at a time because what you're saying doesn't add up.

If you believe that then no problem. I disagree but that's just me.

Because the stars and everything else is inside the dome. There's nothing in space that we can see. All you are looking at are reflections in my opinion. You get told you can see stars thata re billions upon billions or trillion of miles away because they tell you that the light from them has reached your eyes and that you see that star as it was millions of years ago. I mean, does that not deserve questioning? You can see stars because they aren't that high up in the sky and aren't very big at all as reflections. I don't expect you to believe it. Just think about it quietly if you want to.