At these times it appears close to the horizon where the density of the air differs greatly. The air near the ground is denser than the layer of air just above it, and the layer of air above that is less dense still, and so on upwards until the Earth's atmosphere peters out at some 400 km. Now consider what happens when the Sun is setting. When the Sun is at the horizon, light from the top of the disc is going through the air at a different angle than that from the lower part. So the rays are bent by different amounts before they reach the observer's eye. The result is that the bottom part of the Sun's disc appears to be lifted up. In consequence the Sun's disc appears slightly compressed."
- Samuel Birley Rowbotham
...a quote for which I can find no online corroboration. Everything I find on the web either copied it exactly as found here without attribution...
It really is quite obvious from looking at the pictures that someone has mounted dark lights on the tops of the mountains for no other purpose than to cause this perception.It is a bit hard to tell! Either it's complete balderdash or a direct quore from "the Wiki". Which of the following is a true quote from the Wiki and which is rubbish?
For those of you who don't know, dark lights are the same as, but different from, regular lights in that instead of casting light for the purpose of illumination they cast light for the purpose of providing darkness.
This is, in fact, what the moon is and is why we experience darkness when the moon is out. Please keep in mind that the source of dark light doesn't have to be physically seen for its effects to be perceived.
Please, oh god, please know and understand that 100% of the above is absolute BS and sarcasm.
It really is quite obvious from looking at the pictures that someone has mounted dark lights on the tops of the mountains for no other purpose than to cause this perception.It is a bit hard to tell! Either it's complete balderdash or a direct quore from "the Wiki". Which of the following is a true quote from the Wiki and which is rubbish?
For those of you who don't know, dark lights are the same as, but different from, regular lights in that instead of casting light for the purpose of illumination they cast light for the purpose of providing darkness.
This is, in fact, what the moon is and is why we experience darkness when the moon is out. Please keep in mind that the source of dark light doesn't have to be physically seen for its effects to be perceived.
Please, oh god, please know and understand that 100% of the above is absolute BS and sarcasm.Come now, no cheating!
- The sun remains the same size as it recedes into the distance due to a known magnification effect caused by the intense rays of light passing through the strata of the atmolayer.
- You are assuming that the sun is being magnified in a similar method as a magnifying glass, where blurriness occurs as a ratio with distance. This is incorrect. The magnification of the sun occurs through a projection. A projection of light is occurring upon the atmolayer between the sun and observer.
- The sun moves constant speed into the horizon at sunset because it is at such a height that already beyond the apex of perspective lines. It has maximized the possible broadness of the lines of perspective in relation to the earth. It is intersecting the earth at a very broad angle.
My guess is that #1 is from the wiki, while #2 and #3 came as replies to you from some thread participants on the FE side.
It is a bit hard to tell! Either it's complete balderdash or a direct quore from "the Wiki". Which of the following is a true quote from the Wiki and which is rubbish?Come now, no cheating!
- The sun remains the same size as it recedes into the distance due to a known magnification effect caused by the intense rays of light passing through the strata of the atmolayer.
- You are assuming that the sun is being magnified in a similar method as a magnifying glass, where blurriness occurs as a ratio with distance. This is incorrect. The magnification of the sun occurs through a projection. A projection of light is occurring upon the atmolayer between the sun and observer.
- The sun moves constant speed into the horizon at sunset because it is at such a height that already beyond the apex of perspective lines. It has maximized the possible broadness of the lines of perspective in relation to the earth. It is intersecting the earth at a very broad angle.
I'm going to say this is a trick question and that all 3 are quoted from the wiki.
Shadows on the clouds are the waters that falling down from heavens. The places that have heavy water seems as shadows.Haha. Yes. Its water. Definitely not shadows from objects visible in the picture. It's pure coincidence.
They trouble is that I sort of insist that light travels in straight lines unless refracted, diffracted or scattered according to well defined rules.Aha! Aha! Never heard of general relativity, have ye, mate? Posit a few black holes circulating above the earth, and there's your explanation for bendy light.
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Wouldn't it be nice to get some straight answers on the topic.I think the FE response is so obvious that they didn't bother to post it:
Shadows on the clouds are the waters that falling down from heavens. The places that have heavy water seems as shadows.Water doesn't make shadows. Light makes shadows. How does direct sunlight cast shadows on the underside of clouds? It's impossible on a flat earth.
Aha! Aha! Never heard of general relativity, have ye, mate? Posit a few black holes circulating above the earth, and there's your explanation for bendy light.
Flat earthers, feel free to adopt this explanation for the appearances and apparent motions of celestial objects, so long as you don't credit me for it.
Aha! Aha! Never heard of general relativity, have ye, mate? Posit a few black holes circulating above the earth, and there's your explanation for bendy light.
Flat earthers, feel free to adopt this explanation for the appearances and apparent motions of celestial objects, so long as you don't credit me for it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn...
Aha! Aha! Never heard of general relativity, have ye, mate? Posit a few black holes circulating above the earth, and there's your explanation for bendy light.
Flat earthers, feel free to adopt this explanation for the appearances and apparent motions of celestial objects, so long as you don't credit me for it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn...
Fixed my post, hope you approve!