127) “The fact that the Sun and Moon’s reflections on water always form a
straight line path from the horizon to the observer proves the Earth is not a
ball. If Earth’s surface was curved it would be impossible for the reflected
light to curve over the ball from horizon to observer.”
Typically, Mr Dubay just claims
that this is true , and expects us to believe him, There is no evidence and no
argument, just what Dubay says. Odd, for someone who is happy to claim that a
substantial proportion of the world’s population is conspiring to lie to the
rest of us. Why take him on trust, and not these others.
For a detailed discussion including a description with photos of an experiment you can try for yourself, see here:
For a detailed discussion including a description with photos of an experiment you can try for yourself, see here:
Reflection of the sunlight on water
https://www.metabunk.org/reflection-of-the-sunlight-on-water.t8324/#post-198620
In fact, Mr Dubay has just pointed
out an excellent piece of evidence for a curved surface.
So, lets look at the evidence.
Dubay says that you’d never get such a reflection on a curved surface, but you
would on a flat one.
Right now, I’m looking at a
mirrored door across my room. The mirror is flat. There’s a light shining on it
at a similar angle to the sun in his photo. Yet I don’t see such a straight line path, just a direct round
reflection of the bulb. So flat surfaces don’t necessarily give such a
reflection. Now I tried the curved
surface of a shiny Christmas bauble. Still no path of light. It may not be the shape of the surface that
decides whether there is a line reflection.
In fact, you get such effects when
the light scatter off an uneven surface – as here, with the tops of waves
catching rays at different angles, or on a wet road, where headlights reflect
in a similar path.
Again, you can get a similar effect with light
and dark areas behind a water surface in a landscape, like this :
Notice that whenever you get such
an reflection, it is from a rough, uneven but somewhat shiny surface.
Only the rays that bounce directly
towards us enter our eyes – those to either side “miss”. So we only actually see those that bounce
directly between the light source and our pupils, so that we see a vertical
line. This could happen on a flat or slightly curved surface.
So this phenomenon proves nothing, either way.
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