[gondramB]

I’ve got to wonder if I am alone in not understanding what the heck point you are making.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

[gondramB to Fichori] I’ve got to wonder if I am alone in not understanding what the heck point you are making.

Check out the "Sunset" thread, one of the most interesting threads ever. The fun starts with post 458, and then hundreds more, wherein interested parties labour in futility to convince an atheist that the sun does not orbit the earth at 11,000 km/s.

[Fichori]

“I’ve got to wonder if I am alone in not understanding what the heck point you are making.”

The subject is astrophysics and astronomy.

I was demonstrating the falsehood of the assertion of another FReeper who claims that the displacement of the Sun's apparent position from its actual position due to the rotation of the earth on its axis was 2.1°

If the Sun orbited the Earth, his claim of 2.1° displacement would be correct.

Needless to say, more than a few of this gentleman's ideas are a bit far out, not to mention completely unsupported by science.

Here is a graphic I made that reduces the physics down to just Diurnal aberration. (he asserted this model would produce a 2.1° displacement)

The angle of impact represents the displacement between the actual and apparent positions of the light source.

Rain that is falling straight down appears to slant when you are moving in a car due to your transverse motion to the path of the rain drops, causing the rain to appear to be coming from somewhere its not. (The same thing happens with photons and becomes more noticeable the faster you go)




Do you now understand what point I was making?