The Flat Earth Society promotes the belief that the Earth is flat, claiming that evidence supporting a spherical Earth is disregarded. Their theories, which include a flat Earth model centered around the Arctic with Antarctica as an ice barrier, reject conventional physics such as gravity and relativity. This movement, which has gained membership since 2009, traces its roots to the writings of Samuel Rowbotham, who argued for a flat Earth based on interpretations of scripture and pseudoscience.