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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?
That's called the "cloud deck". Again, it's a function of perspective.
How would you explain it differently regardless of whether ball or flat earth? Same difference, no?
"Cloud Deck" isn't an explanation, and I have no idea what it has to do with perspective.
Either the light from the sun is lighting up the underside of the clouds or it isn't. I don't see how my perspective would change that.
The sun appears to get lower and lower and lower in the sky from your perspective. The high clouds in the distance would appear to be "above" the sun. The sun lights up everything, from your perspective, above, below, on the sides, etc.
How would it be any different on a 1000 MPH spinning globe? Same phenomenon occurs. What's your explanation? It's not like the sun is ever "under" the clouds in either model, right?
Well, as the sun sets on a globe, the rays from the sun are indeed below the level of the cloud, which is basically impossible in a flat earth situation.
I looked up some of the FE theories on this aspect, and they all seem to revolve around this concept of perspective. Unfortunately for the FE theories, light and shadow don't change based on an observers perspective. If something is lit from below it's because the light source has a line of sight to the underside of it.
There are sunset pictures of the top of a mountain that is casting a shadow of the peak onto the underside of a cloud. No matter what my perspective of the view is, the sun must be below the level of the cloud and indeed the mountain in order for this to occur.
There are aspects with a globe earth too that I have issue with, but a globe earth is more consistent with the things we actually see day to day, whereas the FE theories always seem to be a bit of a stretch (at best) and clearly wrong in others.
I haven't looked, but what is the FE explanation of tides?