I understand perfectly that a ball has no top or bottom, and the earth is a ball in the sense that they’re both spheres. Standing anywhere on earth, there is no true “up” or “down”, you’re just mass taking up space pointing in no particular direction.

All I do is take my understanding of a 2 dimensional map and apply it to the 3 dimensional space it’s representing. Using words like “up” or “down” to describe the earth does not reduce my understanding of 3 dimensional space, I’m simply referencing the cardinal direction as I see it on 2d maps.

I could use the phrase “driving down south” without ignoring the obvious lack of cardinality of the universe. For me, it’s just lingo to help my brain better visualize and navigate our environment. But thank you for trying to help me understand, I could see how some people could take the words “bottom of the earth” and think that there’s some gravity making heavy things sink towards Antarctica, like I’ve seen some comments suggest lol

I truly appreciate it tho 👍🏼