(December 7, 2023 at 12:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 7, 2023 at 9:26 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Okay, I flunked high school math.* But wouldn't the volume of water be the volume of a sphere say 2 inches higher than Everest minus a sphere the volume of the Earth at sea level, close enough for government work?
*Hospitalized and never caught up.
That's the basic idea, yep.
Visualization help: Suppose the outside of this globe of water covering rock is metaphorically represented by the outside of a basketball. Would the thickness of the shell of the ball equate to the theoretical depth of water? (The inside of the ball is compared to a theoretically billiard ball smooth planet.)
If that isn't confusing enough I'll keep going.
