Solar Eclipses
« on: January 25, 2018, 02:57:28 AM »
Hello all!

I am new to this Flat Earth Society forum and I am very intrigued and I feel that a lot of grat points have been made on here and the Flat Earth Society website and it has definetley changed my view of the world.

However I have one question. I was just wondering how do solar eclipses happen if the Sun and Moon are both rotating around the Earth?

If someone could help me to understand this it would be very much appreciated!

JohnAdams1145

Re: Solar Eclipses
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2018, 04:53:46 PM »
https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Lunar_Eclipse describes the FE position rather well.

I'm not an expert on all of the machinations of FE (primarily because I find it hard to suspend disbelief), but what they appear to be saying is that there is another object in some orbit around the Earth (I have no idea how it could orbit a 32 mile wide Sun; the 2-body system would be quite unstable). This object causes eclipses by moving in front of the Moon and the Sun.

I'm not going to start a debate here, but if you want to know the Round Earth camp's position on this, start a thread in the Flat Earth Debate section and a lot of voracious sharks will jump on this one, since it's so easy to challenge.