Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun. It takes 1yr for Earth to rotate the Sun. In 6 months Earth will be 186 million miles away on the opposite side of the Sun IF EARTH=. and SUN=O What side of EARTH aka .(dot) is day? What side of EARTH is night? Why can i see the Big Dipper every night of every month throughout the year??????????? .------93mil------O------93mil------. Reconcile that's 186 million miles in the opposite direction that we see the Big Dipper! Must be coincidence..lol
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The stars of the Big Dipper are between 79 and 124 light years away. That's the equivalent of between 4,996,045 and 7,841,893 times the distance between the earth and the sun! That's at least 29,541,397,000,000,000,000 miles. Your puny 186 million miles is the equivalent of taking a step to your right and being surprised you can still see the moon! Just because you can't comprehend the scale of the the universe, it doesn't mean it's not true. Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper https://www.calculateme.com/astronomy/light-years/to-astronomical-units/124 Also, this is off topic.
Edit: I notice you were quick to respond to others, but not to me. Coincidence? Lol
Dog17 HAHA great words of truth!
The human eye does not see any "distance". It detects light that comes to it. It is the light that does all the travelling. Are you suggesting that light can't travel 100 light years? What is stopping it?
Stars are very bright.
Do you even know how we measure the distance to the stars? We use something called stellar parralax, in which we observe the movement of a star relative to other stars and use trigonometry (which is the observable and repeatable properties of triangles) to arrive at the only result that explains our observations.
There are basic building blocks of knowledge that are observable, testable, repeatable and have not yet failed that you can acquire in your own experience with your own senses that can combine to come to these answers. You don't need to go there. To deny the distance of stars, you essentially have to deny that triangles exist.
Are you a triangle-denier?
At that distance you are not resolving the size of the star with your sight, but the magnitude of the light they produce. This is different to our sun because we are close enough to experience its size. With stars the distance they can be observed from is dependent on the brightness of the light they produce. For example, if you continued to move away from our sun it would continue to get smaller until it was a pinpoint, somewhere around Jupiter or Saturn, but that pinpoint would still be visible until you were about 56 light years away, such is it's brightness. It's the same principle as flashlights, they can all be the same size, but some have a beam length of 10m while others have a beam that can reach hundreds of metres. It all depends on the brightness of the bulb. Stars are very bright, almost unimaginably so. https://public.nrao.edu/ask/how-can-we-see-stars-in-the-night-sky-when-they-are-so-far-away/
What's the difference of opinion? I can use stellar parallax to measure the distance to stars. I can do that with just a telescope and some patience.
The only thing I need to take on faith is that triangles will always behave like triangles. Do you have a difference of opinion on the properties of triangles?
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