Compass bearings and curves
If you go directly west according to the compass along the equator, will you eventually end up where you started?
If you do, then you've travelled a big circle. How can going in a straight line (no turning) bring you back to where you started?
If you travel directly north long enough you will hit the north pole (supposedly). Then you can't go north any more. The straight path ends there.
Why is there a north pole but no west or east pole? ie why is north-south a straight line while east-west is a big circle?
How can both be true at the same time?
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“If”
If you had globe proof I would’nt be here :hmm:
Well east and west are circular in nature. Not straight. So there's that. There's also magnetic declination and a moving magnetic north.
Then you have Polaris, being the north star and every other star seems to rotate around it. We dont have any Western or Eastern Star of such significance.
This is why I don't deal with "ifs". Too much pretend involved. To start and move to the beginning is a "mind exercise" and it's never been done - ever.
no
Magnetic declination (sometimes called magnetic variation) is the angle between magnetic north and true north.