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Question:ok, me and my freind ar having a debate. He says that a sphere does not have a bottom cause if you turned it the bottom would stay the same or some bs like that. I told him that the bottom is below the top, and is closest towards the ground. So if you turn it upside down the top now has nothing below it and the bottom has the top below it so it makes the top now the bottom.

Well if your not confused now, tell me what you think.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ok, me and my freind ar having a debate. He says that a sphere does not have a bottom cause if you turned it the bottom would stay the same or some bs like that. I told him that the bottom is below the top, and is closest towards the ground. So if you turn it upside down the top now has nothing below it and the bottom has the top below it so it makes the top now the bottom.

Well if your not confused now, tell me what you think.
A sphere has a continuos bottom.The bottom is inside the sphere`s exterior surface.Provided gravity keeps an object at the bottom as it slowly rotates.
A sphere is a circle. There is no start or end.
Sorry to "bust" your sphere, but your friend is correct.

I will agree with you IF you can show me where my wedding band starts and ends.
only if its like a specific sphere (ie a basketball with two colors.)

otherwise no, there is no bottom. its the same either way you look at it.
Yes, it's on top. Also, if it's a sphere of influence you can bet that at the bottom are greed and power mongering; and, at the top are people like the "bush crime family" --google that, quite amusing , and many many entries :))
Using your friend's philosophy, nothing has a bottom. You can take a cup, turn it upside down, and call it on the bottom.

Left, right, up, down, top, bottom are all relative adjectives and cannot be applied to an object indefinitely.
No bottom...sorry.
You say the top is farthest from the ground... well as soon as it's rotated 180 degrees, the "top" becomes the "bottom".
What you are talking about is orientation. What your friend is talking about is the physical aspect of the sphere. The sphere is the same all the way around. Assuming it was one color and one texture and there were no flaws on it, you couldn't tell one point on the sphere from another. so it doesn't have a specific location on it that is its bottom. However, you are correct that if the sphere is at rest, by general consensus, we could agree that the top is the part closest to the sky and the bottom is the part closest to the ground. But if it moves, the points that are considered the top and the bottom change.
Sorry, no bottom to a sphere, that is a sphere only has one orientation. I don't know if you've ever taken a chemistry class, but one thing that you talk about in modern atomic theory is how the probability for finding electrons in a spherical orbital only has one "orientation" because when a sphere is aligned on 3 axis, you can move around the sphere, but it doesn't change. You could technically have aligned along the three different axis, but it would be the same, and the probability cloud would be the same, so a sphere only has one orientation (i.e. no bottom, or up, or down)
I think a sphere does have a top and a bottom. But if you are in the center of the sphere there is no bottom - you can only go up. The reason I think this is that in the Bible Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. I think this is perhaps in the middle of the earth where there would be only two ups. In fact, if there were a hole in the middle of the earth all the way through to the other side, and, let's say, Satan were thrown into the hole, he would fall very quickly to the center and then begin to oscillate back and forth until he gravitated to the center.

What do you think?