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Re: o/t science question about land leveling
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Posted by Sid on March 24, 2007 at 09:51:56 from (12.156.158.155):
In Reply to: o/t science question about land leveling posted by workhorse on March 24, 2007 at 07:29:33:
If you plumb two lines and run them forever, the taller they get the farther apart they become. As they go downward they will meet when they get to the center of the earth. Plumb is determined by the pull of gravity. If you run two lines perfectly level forever they will remain the same distance apart forever and will eventually go off into outer space. So perfectly flat would be perfectly level. So the water depth would be the same.
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