Professor Brian Cox shut down the Flat Earth theory in best way possible with simple response

If you have any notions of being a Flat Earther around Professor Brian Cox then you might want to ditch those, as he pretty much has no time for any of that malarkey.

Despite a plethora of scientific evidence and actual pictures of our planet taken from space showing it to be spherical, there are some people who seem to think the world is instead a flat disk.

Flat Earth advocates have some strange ideas about what makes up our world, and indeed the things beyond it, in an attempt to uphold the notion that it is flat.

Among them is former boxer Carl Froch, who said he believes 'the Earth is flat, 100 percent' and claimed images showing the curvature of the Earth were 'like cartoons'.

He said he'd believe the Earth was round 'when someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights' and people can look back at the planet for themselves.

Pictured: What our planet definitely doesn't look like. (Getty Stock Image)

However, his position will seemingly get no sympathy from British TV's most approachable scientist, as Professor Brian Cox previously shut down the idea of the Earth being flat quite hard.

Several years ago he was answering questions from the public about scientific matters when someone asked him about the Flat Earth theory.

It's safe to say that Cox didn't have much time for the idea, and comprehensively shut down Flat Earthers all around the world.

"There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat," he said of the idea.

"The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat."

Professor Brian Cox slammed the Flat Earth theory as 'drivel'. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

But that wasn't all, as the good professor had more to say on the matter and all the evidence we have to show that the world is demonstrably not flat.

He said: "The very simple fact we've taken pictures of it. I'm lost for words, it's probably the most nonsensical suggestion that a thinking human being could possibly make.

"It is drivel."

It's somewhat difficult to picture the friendly-looking scientist so utterly demolishing the notion that the world might be flat but there it is.

Some former Flat Earthers have said that by being able to observe the fact that our world isn't flat for themselves it snapped them out of the mindset, and apparently the rest of us who know the world isn't flat are known as 'globeheads'.

Topics: Brian Cox, Space, Science

Joe Harker

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