02-11-2015, 09:26 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Quote:A subject that is light by the sun moves to the subject's right by 5 miles...
The shadow that falls from this new location can not fall in a line that converges with the orignal shadow.. it would in fact angle the opposite way and converge with the original back at the horizon under the sun.
This is completely wrong. Shadows, caused by the sun, emanating from two parallel opaque objects, separated by any distance of less than a few thousand miles, are parallel, and do not converge or diverge at all. Any visual effect to the contrary is a trick of perspective or an optical illusion.
No sir, it is not.
Shadows on a flat plane will always and forever converge back thru the opaque entity creating the shadow to the light source.
At the very worst, the Ozzie and post shadows should appear exactly parallel to our eyes.
The very idea that a shadow on the north pole and one on the south would not converge back to the sun is absurd.
Even more absurd is the acceptance that shadows of two objects can ever converge - like RR tracks this too is an illusion of the photograph.
I get that you are trying to say that since the Sun is so much larger than the earth, all the rays would hit us at the same angle... us an extreme example
The shadows created by the Earth and Mars in relation to the sun... pick any two points in space and place these two planets there...
Their shadows, created by the sun, can NEVER converge behind them... but if you extend these same shadows back thru the Earth and Mars the WILL INDEED converge at the sun.
Wheather it's 1 second of arc difference of a light-year, the angle the sun hits two objects in two different places cannot by the laws of physics, be the same...
During an eclipse... the only way an eclipse works is that the shadows line up back toward the sun. As the moon passes beyond the sun, the shadow of the Earth and Moon would converge at the sun, not anywhere beyond the Earth.
They would continue to DIVERGE farther and farther apart yet at the source of light, both shadows have their source.
Do some searching around Drew... All the science sites will tell you that the rays are "NEARLY" parallel due to the distance... but they are not actually parallel.
From any specific point on the sun, a stream of light photons can only travel in one direction... a stream from a different portion of the sun will have a different distance and stream to travel, thereby casting a slightly different shadow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbury_Br...iss_effect
If we are going to make absolute declarations of FACT, they should at least be FACTUAL. Sun rays are NOT infact parallel... only very close.
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in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter