Unfortunately for flat Earthers, this wasn't their big breakthrough in discrediting NASA, the media, and the rest of the world that the Earth is flat. Here you can see an accurate demonstration of how the Sun casts the moon's shadow on Earth. The correct demonstration of the Sun creating a shadow of the moon on Earth. Hence, the experiment would be better served not by a point source of light such as a candle or flashlight, but with a large area of diffuse of light and one that is significantly far from the quarter and wall. The Sun projects light in all directions and is many many times larger than the moon. However, there is one key issue with these experiments. The image below is a comparison of what the flat Earthers were expecting to see, a massive shadow significantly larger than the moon itself. They found that if they moved the quarter closer or farther from the wall the shadow was always bigger than the quarter itself. A few flat Earthers tested their hypothesis by turning on a flash light and shining it at a quarter against the wall. The second argument is that the shadow the moon casts on the Earth has to be bigger than the moon itself. However, in the case of car B which is passing car A, car B would travel from the back bumper to the front hood. Car A typically finds objects first pass by the car from the front hood and travel toward the back bumper. This would mean the moon's shadow will move from west to east at 1,730 km per hour at the equator.Īs an analogy, imagine car B passing car A on the highway. This is compared to the Earth rotating to the east at 1,670 km per hour at the equator. According to NASA, the moon travels to the east as it orbits Earth at approximately 3,400 km per hour.
However, it's important to understand the speed at which the Earth and moon travel. Here's a video of a flat Earther explaining why he thinks this proves the Earth is flat. At face value, this would seem odd to many people. The first argument is if the Earth is rotating from west to east, the shadow should pass across Earth's surface from East to West, just as the sun moves across the sky. The other is the size of the moon's shadow on Earth. One is the eclipse path, which moved from west to east.
There are two key issues flat Earthers take with the Eclipse that prove in their mind the Earth is indeed flat. Did The Solar Eclipse Prove The Earth Is Flat? In some cases, flat Earthers believe the edges of this hockey puck world of ours is surrounded by an ice wall similar to the one keeping out the White Walkers in Game of Thrones.
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