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The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Praise the Lord! He has shown me how to prove scientifically that the sun is no more than 500 miles overhead.

Here is the proof:

To start off with, the sun is hot enough to glow yellow, so we can use Wein’s Displacement Law to determine the temperature.

Wein’s Displacement Law:
Peak Wavelength in meters = displacement constant / temperature in Kelvin

Yellow light has a wavelength between 570nm and 580nm, so we’ll solve for 575nm. Since we are working with nanometers rather than meters, we’ll simplify the math by multiplying the displacement constant by 10^9.

575 = 2897768.5/T
575 * T = 2897768.5
T = 2897768.5/575
T = 5039.6° K (8611.6° F)

So the sun is about 5039.6° Kelvin.

Now, the average temperature of the earth is 59° F, or about 288° K. The mean temperature gradient of the troposphere is 6° K/km, so let’s solve for the distance.

d = (5039.6 – 288)/6
d = 791.9 km (491.1 miles)

There you have it. The sun is roughly 491.1 miles overhead. Depending on the exact shade of yellow (whether it’s closer to 570nm or 580nm), this figure could be off by as much as 5 miles. However, I don’t have a spectrometer handy, and I’m willing to live with an uncertainty of ±5 miles. It’s not like I’m planning to visit anytime soon — my shoes would melt .

The LORD is so good to me. Praise the sweet name of Jesus.

Pastor Billy-Reuben


Replies:
Iplaytf2 (15-06-2022 11:20 PM): 1. The sun is not big in the sky. It's the same size as the moon. 2. I don't know what astrologist you've been seeing but even by their own standard, 400 is way off. It's very easy to look up. If you ...
MitzaLizalor (16-06-2022 04:32 PM): https://youtu.be/sbgjdTQHZXYhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/ab/ce/33/abce3397ed8461098099b0c9bf4ba582.gifAs has already been pointed out, objects of the same size can pass in front of one another at the ...
Roland (16-06-2022 05:02 PM): https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ab/ce/33/abce3397ed8461098099b0c9bf4ba582.gif Nice swing. That one went far. How many of the audience went to Heaven or Hell? ...
Iplaytf2 (16-06-2022 06:18 PM): 1. The sun is not big in the sky. It's the same size as the moon. 2. I don't know what astrologist you've been seeing but even by their own standard, 400 is way off. It's very easy to look up. If you ...
MitzaLizalor (17-06-2022 11:26 AM): Yes, it does appear the same size, only because it's 400x away as well.I assume you're referring to this post, "it" being the sun. the reason it's big in the sky is because it's over 400 times the size ...
MitzaLizalor (17-06-2022 11:27 AM): https://youtu.be/sbgjdTQHZXYHi!https://www.landoverbaptist.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=29819&d=1607216829Thanks for that link. As we've already seen, just because the moon passed in front of the sun ...
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