If light could be captured by the camera, and all the holes in the fence and his torch were at the same height, according to Knodel, we would have irrefutable evidence that the earth was flat.
But things didn’t work out as planned, and Knodel was left saying something “interesting” to himself when the experiment failed to produce any visible light.
“What we found is, is when we turned on that gyroscope we found that we were picking up a drift,” he would later try
to explain the results in a video he posted on YouTube. The drift is 15 degrees each hour. He went on to say, “We obviously were not willing to accept that,
and so we started looking for ways to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth.” He then admitted that the findings were “kind of a problem.”
