"The world is round," reveals YouTuber

A Vancouver educator, who quit his schedule to make fun science videos on Youtube, took his bike and his dials – yes, sundials – in the fainthest part of Canada to prove that the world is round. Baute describes himself as a "whimsical scientist".

"It's a very simple experience. [Eratosthenes] did it 2,200 years ago, "Baute said in an interview with CTV

. The former science teacher went to Saskatchewan to recreate an old 240 BC experience. or by a Greek mathematician Eratosthenes who was the first to measure the circumference of the earth using shadows. "Instead of using a bike," says Baute, "someone did 800 kilometers on foot and counts the distance." The classical specialist, who was also the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria, then measured the shadows on wooden sticks.

Baute reshaped the prairie mesasure last week to demystify basic scientific truths. . He chose Saskatchewan because Highway 33 is one of the longest and shallowest roads in the world

. antiquity, passing the canola fields and the big blue skies along the way.

"I thought cycling for a 140-kilometer straight was going to be really boring, but it's just beautiful here!" He said in his GoPro camera mounted on his road bike.

YouTuber then installed his first sundial in the small town of Broughton. A second sundial was organized by two members of the Saskatchewan Science Center in Regina

Then, around 11 o'clock in the morning, the shadow of a stick was 3.9 centimeters higher than the # 39; another. Baute calculated that this was a proof that the world is a sphere and that it verifies that the circumference of the planet is about 40,000 kilometers.

"This tells us that the globe is a knowable thing." He adds that the project was carried out partly because of what he sees as a growing anti-science sentiment on social media, particularly in United States

"I am so confused by NASA's conspirators," said Baute in response to a video from the US-based Comedy Network.

"There is currently a very strong movement -science that basically says: "We will not believe NASA, we will not believe that gravity exists, we will not believe that satellites are real, we will believe that the Earth is flat.As a scientist, it's really scary for me. "

Baute also loves other eccentric calculations.

He recently spent three weeks figuring out where he could go from his camera to create a perfect miniature image. for its YouTube channel: a silhouette of itself entirely behind the sun.

"I realized that the sun is 150 million kilometers and that I am only 1.7 meters tall, [then] the camera and I … must be 100 to 200 meters, "he said in one of the videos on his Youtube channel.

"Then I can be huge on the sun."