The Sun: Millions of miles away?

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

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

[Bob4God]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Very interesting brother, but I certainly do not understand all those numbers and stuff. It seems all too scientific for me.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Very interesting brother, but I certainly do not understand all those numbers and stuff. It seems all too scientific for me.

Let me explain it more simply. If the sun was any further away we couldn't feel the heat from it.

[Nobar King]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Does heat follow the inverse square law, too?

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Does heat follow the inverse square law, too?

Yes. If the sun were a nuclear reaction, it would have to be further away. Since it is made from coal, 500 miles is about right.

[Nobar King]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I have heard that the sun is closer to the Earth during winter than in summer. I suspect that the opposite is true.

How would the sun know when winter is, anyway?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I have heard that the sun is closer to the Earth during winter than in summer. I suspect that the opposite is true.

I heard some fellow on the radio saying that too. He seemed to forget that if it were so, Australia would have it right and the USA would have it wrong. This cannot be so, therefore your suspicions are well-founded.

How would the sun know when winter is, anyway?

God did it: Psalms:74:17: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

[Brother Cletus]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I have heard that the sun is closer to the Earth during winter than in summer. I suspect that the opposite is true.

I believe you're right, Brother Nobar. It takes 365 days for the sun to revolve around the earth. When it's 500 miles away, it's summer. When it's 505 miles away, it's winter.

[SayvedByTheLord]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Thank you for this mathematical proof Pastor Billy, I plan to take it to my meteorology class this weekend.

I'll show those secularists

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

That's interesting. It could also be that the sun gets hotter in the summer and colder in the winter, so that the light wavelength is closer to 570nm in the summer but closer to 580nm in the winter. I'll get my secretary to put in an ad on Craigslist to see if anyone is willing to make a tax-deductible contribution of a new or gently used spectrometer so we can test this out.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Nobar King]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I heard some fellow on the radio saying that too. He seemed to forget that if it were so, Australia would have it right and the USA would have it wrong. This cannot be so, therefore your suspicions are well-founded.

God did it: Psalms:74:17: Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Thanks for straightening that out for me. I shouldn't be worrying too much about these things, as they're already put in place for a reason, despite the sicular scientists' passion for trying to disprove reality.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I often giggle when I hear the stupid liberals claim that "energy" from the sun is "clean," and then turn around and criticize coal as dirty energy! How can the sun be clean when the sun itself is just a giant ball of burning coal revolving around the earth? What is wrong with these people? Could they be any more ridiculous?

[Repentant Liberal]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

If the sun were millions of miles away how could we even see it? It would have to be much larger than the Earth, and a ball of coal that large wouldn't be able to move across the sky as it does. How absurd.

[Deluded 7th Gay Andwitless]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Very interesting brother, but I certainly do not understand all those numbers and stuff. It seems all too scientific for me.

Dumbass.

and as for you, PASTOR billy rueben, what school did you go to??? uhhh you do realize that science proofed the sun is like 94 million miles away right??

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Dumbass.

and as for you, PASTOR billy rueben, what school did you go to??? uhhh you do realize that science proofed the sun is like 94 million miles away right??

Dumbass, DID YOU READ THE MATHEMATICAL PROOF PASTOR POSTED? Can you refute it?

THEN SHUT UP, ignorant twit!