We aren't even yet talking about the possible shadow dynamics there.
- - You were talking about the shadow in your first post, and referring to the eclipse path in page 1. What is the eclipse path, if not the shadow of the Moon?
An argument was not made that the shadow needs to rotate to face the earth at all times. You are reading what you wish and are making faulty assumptions and arguments.
- - I disagree.
Clearly, if it was thought that the shadow needed to rotate to face the earth at all times and situations that argument would have been made when discussing the shadow moving across the earth. It was not.
... and it took you 10 pages to realise. Perhaps you shouldn't have "skimmed" my posts after all...
Nobody else seems to think I was off-topic. If I was way off, dontcha think others would have said so too?
For 8 or 9 pages, I've been actively been trying to help you, since you expressed a lack of understanding from page 1 onwards. When you asked "Where am I going wrong", I provided 3 or 4 posts with explanation. When you didn't like my explanation in words, and demanded "Draw a diagram", I explicitly asked you "What kind of diagram would help you most", and even provided some more, when this question went unanswered. But for the last two pages or so you've been picking at the minutiae of what was said to insist that what I responded to from the outset was not what you really meant. Why are you doing this?
Do you now understand why the solar eclipse path went from West to East?We can close the thread now if we can establish whether or not the contributions from myself and others have answered your original questions. Have they?