What is the earth in flat earth?
If the earth is not a disc in space, as there is no space, what is the earth? What shape is it? Is it infinite or does it have an end? Where is the end? What is below the surface and how deep does the earth go? I haven't been able to find consistent answers on this and it is a bit of a roadblock for me.
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What Is the Earth?
The special and unique place where all mortal life resides on, you could consider It "the floor of the universe" if you like.
Infinity doesn't exist in the Natural world because nothing can be actually infinite, logically speaking, so no...
When It comes to "an end", sure, since the Earth has to be contained and enclosed by a structure that allows gas to build and sustain pressure, common sense and logic alone tells you that said container must at some point touch the surface because you physically can't have gas pressure without a volume to fill. The Earth Is a closed system.
And NO... You don't have yo be shown a picture to know that, that's a ridiculous standard of evidence because "pictures" aren't empirical evidence anyway. Pictures can easily be faked or forged ad hoc to show basically anything.
You can prove something to be real or true by logical deduction, especially when It comes to a scientific claim that adheres to the Laws of physics.
Where Is this elusive end? Good question. Maybe you should ask why are all of the world governments agreeing on the fact that no private and free exploration of Antarctica Is allowed, and why do they have to approve and control every Little detail while also forcing you to never be able to cross the "south pole" and keep going straight on a plane because "it's too dangerous and we can't come rescue you if something goes wrong".
Go research the Antarctic Threaty and see how difficult It Is to even get a permit in the first place, then try to ask them if you can chart a route that on a ball would have you actually cross the south pole North to South to pop back up on the other side of the claimed sphere.
What's "below" and how deep?
Good question. Nobody actually knows for sure because nobody has ever been able to dig deeper than 8 Miles and all the globe has are theoretical assumptions that have been proven wrong all the way while they were digging said 8 miles hole.
It's called the Kola superdeep Borehole, it's in Russia, and they spent YEARS trying to go past 7.8 Miles and they gave up after all the equipment kept breaking...
I think it's not true that "you couldn't find consistent answers" about all of your questions because, sure, speculation Is one thing but everything i told you Is objectively the "consensus", if you want me to use that Word, when It comes to what we actually know to be true.
Nobody has to make definitive claims that go outside of what can be empirically proven by every independent analysis of the surface of the Earth.
What you, me, and everyone else can actually verify Is that the surface doesn't curve at the rate claimed, proving without a shadow of a doubt that the Earth isn't the 3959 miles in radius sphere we are lead to believe.
Also... "Space" as in the ever expanding vacuum of space Is a sci fi concept that has no proof whatsoever and goes against the Laws of physics, and every claim about "going to It" dies with the falsification of the radius value.
What we see in the Sky Is obviously up there but there Is no need to make definitive claims about what stars, planets (which are defined as wandering stars, not solid pieces of rock) Sun and Moon are, because you can't scientifically and empirically prove one way or another what those things are.
You can, again, offer speculations and assumptions but anyone claiming they know for a fact what they are or how they work doesn't know what "science" actually Is.
You can't "do science" on something that you can't have access to, manipulate, isolate, test for, replicate etc...
Cosmology isn't science, it's a philosophycal doctrine by definition, and there Is no problem with that.
Observation and speculation, using just math that has no actual connection with reality to describe ideas, without experimentation isn't science.