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I like your #7, that’s fresh.
The rest are what we get here 50 times a day. So don’t get your hopes up about getting in depth replies.
Erastosthenes used two sticks and that's the experiment he failed to recreate in the video. If you read above I already picked out another assumption was distance to the sun.The experiment outlined in the OP was first done to show earth's size ASSUMING it is round.No, it assumes a distant sun.
And you keep saying they needed to take the measurements at different times, that is you just not understanding the experiment that was done.
As has been pointed out, a local sun and a flat earth is a possible alternative explanation for the result - although that is you making an assumption about the shape of the earth - but if you do this experiment at 3 points then you'd expect different results on a FE or a Globe:
https://flatearth.ws/eratosthenes
Well then all you end up with is an argument about whether the road is flat or curved with the shape of the earth ... you are no further forward.You see the sun is closer on flat earth models ... so we also get different shadow lengths ... exaggerated in my diagram above.
So you only want to talk about the second diagram and not what my post was actually about? I know you know that the shadow won't go down the middle of the base of the second sundial - because it's the reason why you said he botched the experiment - even though it absolutely should on a flat Earth.
Let's just simplify the experiment then. Two observers standing right next to that same straight road at either end. They both put sticks in the ground. When the shadow of the stick at the South Eastern end is perfectly parallel with the road, that observer calls up the second observer to ask if their shadow is parallel with the road. If the second observer says no, the Earth is not flat.
You know that the second observer will say no. But let's just ignore that, shall we?
Nope. You are wrong. Come on then Mr 33 posts. School me with a diagram.
OK, let's look at a flat Earth first. The road is at 127° azimuth. So on a flat Earth, I should be able to put the two sundials parallel to the road at the same distance to the road, and when the shadow goes exactly down the middle of the base of one (for example on 1st May, 2018 at 10:30am), it should go down the middle of the base of the other. And at that time, we should be able to get the length of the shadows and thus the elevation.
If the shadow doesn't go down the middle of the base of the second sundial, then FE theory must have some explanation for light bending horizontally. In other words, it must explain why if I'm looking directly at the sun at that time, the atmosphere to the left of the sun has a higher refractive index than the atmosphere to the right of the sun (if bending to the South in my diagram). Assuming this is observed consistently day after day in all seasons and weather conditions, this would be very problematic.
What do you think will be observed and if the shadow doesn't go down the middle of the base of the second sundial, what is your explanation?
Edit: Ha! I just realised I made a mistake and drew the experiment the way it would be at a location where I am in the Southern Hemisphere. You'll have to spin the sundials 180° for a Northern Hemisphere experiment. Same logic applies on a flat Earth though for the shadows on the sundials lining up.
Dude, its a waste of time. I'm telling ya. You prove the earth ain't flat and they ban you or warn you. lolYou probably will get a warning, because you haven't added to the conversation. You just had a rant. And you know we have a place for ranting already.
I will probably get a warning or get banned just for writing this.
No.Well 6 minutes is 1.5 degrees of longitude.
And the sun has moved 110km west in that time.
If we know the height of the sticks, the day, work out how far the top of the stick is from the ground ... its a whole lot of maths we might be able to find the answer. But my answer is short. This experiment was botched. Not waiting those 6 minutes screws up the results. Of course shadows get longer and shorter over the course of 6 minutes.
I really can’t figure out your thinking here. The measurement needs to be taken at the same time. If he waited 6 minutes, that would utterly defeat the whole point of the experiment! The shadow length of the second sundial would catch up with the first cancelling out the effect of curvature!
Warm regards
His island is in the British Virgin Islands. You know, Virgin ... like his company.It doesn't matter whether you are round earth or flat earth, we are all hoping he doesn't make it back.
You totally just got crossed off the guest list at Sir Richard's island in the Bahamas.
Baute will cycle approximately 140km along Highway 33 from Regina to Stoughton
He knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Syene (modern Aswan, Egypt), the Sun was directly overhead.
and his experiments and observations still haven't been globally agreed upon.Is this just a poor choice of words on your part or are you expecting us to explain why Rowbotham's ideas haven't been GLOBALLY agreed upon?
