Professor Brian Cox gave simple response to shut down Flat Earth theory in best way possible

For those of you that believe the Earth is flat, you might want to reassess that notion as none other than Professor Brian Cox has come out to rubbish the theory.

Flat Earthers may have chosen to completely dismiss scientific evidence and photos taken of our beautiful blue planet from space, revealing it to be a sphere, as some are set in believing the conspiracy that we are all being lied to and we live on a flat disk.

It’s not just everyday folks who choose to believe this either, as former boxer Carl Froch is among the celebrities that firmly believe that photos revealing the spherical shape of the Earth are ‘fake’.

This is what many Flat Earthers believe our world looks like, despite overwhelming evidence against it (Getty Stock Image)

He said he’d believe the Earth was round ‘when someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights’ and people can look back at the planet for themselves.

However, Froch’s stance will seemingly get no sympathy from British TV’s most approachable scientist, as Professor Brian Cox previously hit back at the idea of the Earth being flat.

Several years ago he was answering questions from the public about scientific matters when someone asked him about the Flat Earth theory.

It’s safe to say that Cox didn’t have much time for the idea, and comprehensively shut down Flat Earthers all around the world.

“There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat,” he said.

“The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat.”

Professor Brian Cox brutally shut down the Flat Earth theory (David Levenson/Getty Images)

But that wasn’t all, as the good professor had more to say on the matter and all the evidence we have to show that the world is demonstrably not flat.

Cox added: “The very simple fact we’ve taken pictures of it. I’m lost for words, it’s probably the most nonsensical suggestion that a thinking human being could possibly make.

“It is drivel.”

It’s somewhat difficult to picture the friendly-looking scientist so utterly demolishing the notion that the world might be flat but there it is.

Some former Flat Earthers have said that by being able to observe the fact that our world isn’t flat for themselves it snapped them out of the mindset, and apparently the rest of us who know the world isn’t flat are known as ‘globeheads’.