True!
AND it is TRUE that the same experiment works with a local sun traveling around a flat plane much like the face of a clock. Spiraling in at the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice, and down to Capricorn for winter solstice. And unlike the spinning ball corkscrewing through space at 88 times the speed of at sound, every year on that particular date you do the stick experiment, you can look up at sky that night and see the same stars in the exact same position as they have been century after century. Wild, huh? I bet you never even thought of that before, have you?
The stick experiment (your way) would work only for two locations. For all other locations, it would give the wrong answer. All other locations would have parallel lines of sight to the sun, possible only on a spherical Earth. I mean, this has been figured out by astronomers making measurements. Why don't you do the math instead of the arm-wave?
True! AND it is TRUE that the same experiment works with a local sun traveling around a flat plane much like the face of a clock. Spiraling in at the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice, and down to Capricorn for winter solstice. And unlike the spinning ball corkscrewing through space at 88 times the speed of at sound, every year on that particular date you do the stick experiment, you can look up at sky that night and see the same stars in the exact same position as they have been century after century. Wild, huh? I bet you never even thought of that before, have you?
What else do ya got?
The stick experiment (your way) would work only for two locations. For all other locations, it would give the wrong answer. All other locations would have parallel lines of sight to the sun, possible only on a spherical Earth. I mean, this has been figured out by astronomers making measurements. Why don't you do the math instead of the arm-wave?