Quote from: Tom Bishop on September 26, 2017, 05:42:05 PM

Why would we give a different explanation other than the one published in the Wiki and our Flat Earth literature?

What is wrong with the explanation?

1. From Wiki - '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.'

What ISN'T wrong with that statement?

#1 it is an assertion unsupported by any observation or fact.  Your simplistic appeals are not sound arguments.

#2 atmoSPHERIC refraction, caused by the pressure differential created by gravity, causes the sun to actually appear to SHRINK along the vertical axis in the moments before sunset and this shrinking fits completely within the Globe model (http://aty.sdsu.edu/explain/atmos_refr/flattening.html -- note how I have the model, the science, and observation on my side?).  The WIDTH of the sun remains the same.  Your appeal to unevidenced atmoSPHERIC effects do not hold water as the Globe does due to Gravity.

#3 the AMOUNT of magnification required to keep a 3000-something-mile distant Sun the same size as it zooms off would require nuclear explosion levels of changes in the atmoSPHERE that would end all human life.  Please show me where YOU calculated the temperature and pressure differentials required to maintain such an effect and explained how they magically don't appear to anyone else but the distant observer and how they manage even greater horizontal magnification!

#4 a huge proportion of Flat Earthers claim it does shrink - here is a little helpful graphic to help stop them from embarrassing themselves and your 'movement'




Flat Earth thoroughly debunked: https://flatearthinsanity.blogspot.com/