Can you draw me a diagram of this? I'm not getting it.
Here's my attempt to diagram it: https://files.catbox.moe/b804ni.png
As you can see, the problem that I have with the flat earth model is that the two observers see the sun as being in a very different direction. No matter how far away the sun is, those sight lines from observer 1 vs. observer 2 never converge. There's no way (that I can imagine) to make this work without having two different suns.
...or (as I show at the bottom) using a globe earth model. With a globe earth model, it's easy to understand how why one of them sees the sun above the horizon and the other one doesn't.
[–] 24879465? ago
Light doesn‘t go on forever. Inverse square law.
[–] 24879906? ago
The inverse square law makes things dimmer. It doesn't make it appear to be in two different positions for two different observers.
Here's a diagram of what I'm talking about: https://files.catbox.moe/b804ni.png
As you can see, on the flat earth model, it looks like there are two different suns. One of them is only visible to observer 1, and one of them is only visible to observer 2. It just doesn't make sense to me, and the inverse square law doesn't seem to fix it.
As you can see at the bottom of the diagram, a globe earth model does fix it. Only one sun is necessary.
[–] 24881392? ago (edited ago)
I mean that the sun doesn‘t go down when it is dark. It‘s light merely doesn‘t reach us, hence inverse square law.
Look at how incredibly bright the moon is when full. Now look at the videos of when they were on the moon. It was dim. Should have been blindingly bright.
Makes no sense. It should have been brighter than the full moon appears to us. (Inverse square law.)
That video I posted above is great. We don‘t have all the answers but what we‘ve been told is false.