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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Disproof: Clouds lit from below at sunset.
« on: December 20, 2017, 04:02:49 AM »Explain how a sun 3000 miles up can cast a shadow of Mt Rainer onto a layer of clouds?? This mean the light HAS to be BELOW the level of the mountain. Try to create a shadow on your ceiling with a light shining down or even level - you can not do it without angling the light source up.
This is proof! Can we put the matter to rest?
As we have discussed in this thread, the sunset creates a band of darkness which originates from the horizon. If the sun is at the horizon at sea level in that picture, it is looking up at the mountain in the foreground, and therefore a shadow is created.
As per the argument of how the sun can be lower than the mountain in order to look up at it, this was discussed earlier in this thread. If we have a series of lamp posts stretching into the horizon, it is possible and raise your hand to be above a small lamp post on the horizon in the distance. The distant lamp post is now looking up at your hand.
The distant lamp post has the opposite perspective. It sees you at the horizon and it sees your hand slightly above the horizon, and therefore its photons are angled upwards at it.
You can learn more about how perspective works by reading Earth Not a Globe.
No, a lamp post that is taller than your hand can never be looking up at your hand no matter how far off into the distance it is. This is truly mind boggling logic. Reminds me of something I read in a Harry Potter book.
Are you suggesting that the lamp post on the horizon has in fact gotten smaller due to its distance from you? If this is the case, what would happen to a man who happens to be standing beside that post? I ask this because he will not observe himself shrinking as he walks away from you, however, according to this theory, I will see him shrink and he will be looking up at me.
Can I get a definitive answer to this question: Does perspective literally alter the size of objects according to flat Earth theory?