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Does flat earth theory have an explanation for the sun rising and setting? Also, if there is an explanation, does it explain why the sun/moon look larger when they are close to the horizon?
Atmospheric lensing from moisture in the air.
I suppose that's what bends the light so much it can illuminate the underside of clouds, yes?
Sure. But flat earth proofs are NEVER "theories". That domain is reserved for the globers.
You first have to understand the flat earth model. Think of a giant lake (oceans) with islands in it (continents). All bodies of water must be held in a container, as we all know through basic common sense. Antarctica is the "container" that encircles this lake. It's not a "continent" on the "bottom of the globe". It's a giant ice wall that's "off limits" to us normies, since 1958. We aren't allowed to go there unless escorted by an international governing body. They take tourists to a tiny little outpost south of Chile. Keeps the lie alive.
Above this "firmament" the sun and moon traverse the sky in a circular motion, opposite one another, above the "lake", just as you see every day. The sun transits between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn each calendar year. When it's near Capricorn (northern hemisphere), it's warm in the US. When it gets closer to Cancer, it's warm in the southern hemisphere, Australia for example.
The paths that the sun/moon traverse look like the Yin/Yang symbol you've almost certainly seen. What you see every day is the sun moving closer to your location, then moving away from your location. This is exactly as your eyes and senses perceive it. And this is exactly what's happening. You don't perceive you're standing on a rotating ball spinning away from a stationary object.
While nobody knows 100% for sure, we believe both the sun and moon are approximately 3300 miles away from the earth and 32 miles in diameter each, identical in size (hence the perfect eclipses. Once again, just as your eyes see. And neither are balls/globes either. It would be more accurate to call them "lights" or possibly "plasmas", just like the PLANEts (PLANES), which were always called "wandering stars" through antiquity. They're lights too.
The appearance of a larger sun at the horizon is due to atmospheric lensing and refraction. It's a bit more complicated to explain this. But this sort of thing happens at certain times of year, and in certain places, more dramatically than others. This explains why you don't ALWAYS see the larger sun or moon every day of the year. In short, it's a function of our limited visual perspective under certain atmospheric conditions.
Easy to sail around the pond of the flat earth. Nothing difficult to explain there.
That's projecting the globe-trotter attitude on the truthers. The globe is the theoretical fiction based on 100% nonsense. Gravity is a theory. Big bang is a theory. Dark Energy and dark matter are theories. The size and distance of the sun are theories. I could go on and on. You've got everything inverted, as the controllers wish it to be. Their LIES are all based on theories. Our TRUTHS are all based on verifiable facts and common sense.
It's THEORIES vs FACTS. You get to choose...
Ok, so let me see if I've understood this.
The Sun is basically a spotlight that shines 'down' on the face of the earth, and it doesn't 'set' it just gets further away, right up until the point where it no longer shines down on my bit of the earth, and it gets dark. Is that right?
So, things that get farther away tend to look smaller as they do so, but because of 'atmospheric lensing' the sun actually looks bigger as it gets further away, right up until it can be seen anymore and it becomes dark?
In your setting sun example, the sun is about to drop out of your visual reference field, as it gets closer and closer to appearing at the same level as the ground. It is this lower level where the atmosphere is the most dense, heaviest, thickest as well as different temperatures which gives the impression of the sun "getting bigger". The sun didn't get any "lower", it's just moving beyond your visual field. It remains at the same height. That it looks bigger to you is essentially the atmospheric lensing effect. There are other explanations for seeing the "Big Sun" in Africa out on the Serengeti, for example. Those have more to do with the time of year and the transiting of the sun between the Tropics.
Now compare and contrast this to standing on a 1000 MPH spinning ball rotating around a stationary ball of hydrogen gas at 66,000 MPH. Why would the sun appear bigger at any stage in this globe model? Nothing is "changing size", right? So why the "appearance" of a change in size then?
So, how does the setting sun often highlight the underside of clouds during a sunset then, if everything I'm seeing is just a trick of perspective?