Flat Earthers have new 'Pac-Man' theory for why we don't fall off the edge

Britain’s first Flat Earth conference took place in Birmingham on Saturday – and one speaker came up with an incredible solution for one of the biggest problems in Flat Earth cosmology.

What happens if you ‘fall off’ the edge?

Darren Nesbit has an idea: perhaps our planet ‘wraps around’ like the screens in Pac-Man – so that when you go off one side you reappear on the other.

Darren Nesbit says that this explains why people can travel continuously East to West without meeting a ‘wall’.

Nesbit says, ‘We know that continuous east-west travel is a reality. One logical possibility for those who are truly free thinkers is that space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect.’

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Many Flat Earthers claim that there’s a huge ‘ice wall’ around the world, with the North Pole at its centre – but that’s clearly not far out for some of the ‘true free thinkers’.

Former England cricketer ‘Freddie’ Flintoff revealed last year that he was obsessed with a podcast called the Flat Earthers – and coming round to their ideas.

Flintoff described the ‘ice wall’ theory, saying, ‘The middle is the North Pole, around the outside is the South Pole which is like a big wall of ice. This is why all governments now have bases on the South Pole.’

Flintoff said, ‘If you’re in a helicopter and you hover why does the Earth not come to you if it’s round?

‘Why, if we’re hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling? Also if you fire a laser about 16 miles, if the world was curved, you shouldn’t be able to see it but you can.’

He even claims to be warming to the idea of a global conspiracy to conceal the truth (something that Flat Earthers are naturally very fond of).