Sup FEers!PurposeTo begin detailing how we can describe the motion of the Sun and Moon over the FE.
Assumptions- Vanishing Perspective Theory holds
- No constraint is made upon the reason for the motions - this is a purely kinematic study. Dynamics require FET to define the time derivative of momentum for their purposes
AudienceHopefully this drags some FEers out of the lower fora
. Their insight is critical to the positive development of their movement.
First ThoughtsSo, from Vanishing Perspective Theory (VPT), light rays may not propagate through atmospheric densities indefinitely. This is NOT due to limitations of our sensory organs (Not THOSE organs, Pete! Grow up!
), but due to refractive scattering which decollamates coherent phase from a line of sight. That is, atmosphere scatters it away and we lose all optical information.
FET defines this point of VP convergence as the horizon.
The first issue that arises right away is how we can see the Moon at all. Please follow:
1. At night, the Sun is beyond our VP horizon, hence we experience night time.
2. We see the Moon at night.
3. The rays from the Sun scatter off the Moon, and hit our eyes.
4. The rays from the Sun at night must hence travel farther than the VP to reach the Moon, and then scatter to our eye.
NOTE: a scattering event cannot RESET the VP, since this would negate a VP from existing at all! That is, it is created by scattering in the first place.
Therefore, the Sun cannot illuminate the Moon.
Also, since eclipses are not viewable everywhere on Earth, zetetic deduction demands that the Moon is not an emitter.
So what illuminates the Moon? And why do we not see it?