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 :lol:. The LORD is so good to me. Praise the sweet name of Jesus. Pastor Billy-Reuben |
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Very interesting brother, but I certainly do not understand all those numbers and stuff. It seems all too scientific for me.
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Does heat follow the inverse square law, too?
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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? |
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Thank you for this mathematical proof Pastor Billy, I plan to take it to my meteorology class this weekend.
I'll show those secularists :thumbsup: |
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?? |
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THEN SHUT UP, ignorant twit! |
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http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/sun_worldbook.html i mean, hasn't this stuff been known for years as facts? i just cant understand how you people think and why you live so many years in the past! btw i'm not expert in your religion but aren't you supposed to be more tolerant?? love thy neighbor was it? |
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However, what proof do they have? How do you know their figure is accurate? You just accept it on faith. I have shown my work. If you think the sun is 94 million miles away, then let's see your calculations. Pastor Billy-Reuben |
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okay, if the sun is only 500 ft away then how do you explain that we can see other planets lit by it?? and what about the warm temperatures on planets like venus and mercury? if the sun isn't in the center of our solar system and is only as small as you say it would not be able to warm them would it?
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Venus and Mercury aren't other worlds -- they are just little lights in the firmament. Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Pastor Billy-Reuben |
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