h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If the world really was flat, then what would happen if you went off the edge? Would you really just fall off the side like so many people thought? I think you would turn 90 degrees and be balanced on the edge then when you stepped off be upside down. O the closer you get to the edge, the more you tilt so as to be in line with the center of the earth. Or maybe gravity would be less strong the closer you got to the edge, making for all sorts of weird effects, like if the ocean was near the edge it would turn all foggy, or if there was land there would be a big dust cloud. Also you would be progressively lighter as you got closer until finally you were floating above the ground(which would probably be a lot less solid with nothing holding it together)with no way to get down or back.