I totally love this! 
N.B. If this is TLDR, at least read the last two lines to know what this is about.
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What you are seeing when you look up at the sky is a simulation.
The dome is an angle selective projector, and what it projects down to you depends on where you stand looking up at it. If it’s daytime, the projector shines light down from where you see the ‘sun’, if night it shines a lower radiance from where you see the ‘moon’. The projection causes the apparent position of the ‘sun’ and ‘moon’ (and all the ‘stars’) to move in real time.
Of course, it also uses infrared to simulate the seasons.
It uses ultra long wave electromagnetic radiation to cause the tides, and this same energy interacts with minerals deeper in the Earth and causes localised hotspots where the electromagnetic fields are absorbed – these are the source of the magma chambers of volcanoes. The Earth’s magnetic field is caused by a similar larger paramagnetic mass (below the magnetic north pole) and a diamagnetic structure round the periphery of the disc causing a ‘virtualised’ south pole.
The apparent ‘core’ of the earth as detected by seismic waves isn’t caused by refraction of the waves from the earth’s core, rather by reflection from the curved underside of the disc. This is analogous to the way that light can be focussed by outwardly curved lenses or by inwardly curved mirrors.
Since despite appearances, the physical distances south from the equator are equal to the equivalent distances north of the equator it’s clear that the disc of the Earth is a non-Euclidean space. This is also the reason that larger scale maps do not accurately represent the precise shape and/or area of landmasses; it also shows that on the Earth’s surface, the included angle of triangles will not always be 180° as can easily be demonstrated by polar navigation. Euclid could not have been aware of this since he lacked access to a sufficiently large area in which to experiment and sufficiently accurate tools to make determinations over such large distances; hence all his experiments occurred in much smaller areas of pseudo-Euclidean geometry.
Furthermore, the complex maths involved here has implications should anyone attempt to drill down from the poles: doing so and achieving a depth of more than π radians times the equatorial distance of the Earth will put you out of phase with the resonant characteristic of the earth. As such, at this point all vectors will be multiplied by the square root of -1 and you’ll appear on the imaginary plane instead of the material plane of the Earth. It is entirely possible that this could result in the theoretical condition known as black hole where the laws of material physics break down; but the precise effect is, inherently unknown, except in the imagination.
We’re still working on accounting for meteors and meteorites, but the prevailing thought is that they are bits that accidentally fall off the structural parts of the dome. It appears that the dome has a mainly iron-nickel alloy framework that’s covered with a layer of solid mineral insulation. It also appears that, when the mineral insulation fails then after a time a part of the metal framework can be dislodged. This is the only explanation we can find to account for the greater preponderance of ‘stony’ meteorites over iron-nickel meteorites.
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As you can calculate the surface of a sphere, it’s also possible to define a spatial transform that expresses that surface in a two-dimensional space, just as can be done for any other three-dimensional object with a mathematically regular surface!
Note that this is a mathematical transformation of the space in which the surface exists, not a transform of the surface itself, however anything (or anyone) on that surface will (at least locally within that mathematically defined two-dimensional space) perceive the surface as being flat. Only by venturing outside of that mathematically defined two-dimensional space, will the transform become visible.
So, once you break out significantly far from the surface it becomes clear that the simpler theory is the correct interpretation. (i.e. Earth is an oblate spheroid elliptically orbiting a star, rather than being a surface in a complex mathematically defined cyclic non-Euclidean two-dimensional space).
Also see Occam’s Razor.
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P.S. I’m not actually a flattie, so despite all the devious invention here, this is pure jest… and the Earth is still an oblate spheroid following an elliptical orbit around an unremarkable main system star.
Phew… I’m glad I read it to the end, Xanthe!
I was getting worried…
This was what was in that briefcase!
That is worryingly close to reality.
That is very sad.
