I thought you told me to look out my window. I look out and see the sun set behind the mountains. Then I see the moon. And it also sets, yet its way dimmer then the sun. It should set way earlier but it doesnt.
The sun sets into the horizon at a certain distance away from the observer due to a perspective effect. It's all explained in the chapters of Earth Not a Globe I've linked to above. After the sun sets there is lingering light from the sun bouncing around off the clouds and such. Eventually when the sun is a significant distance away that light disappears entirely due to air density and the observer is plunged into darkness.
Tom, I actually looked at that section, and therefore I can knowledgably tell you
it is a total load of CRAP!If sunrises/sunsets were really caused by a perspective effect, I would see the sun in the morning as a tiny dot
on the horizon, watch it as it grew bigger and eventually passed overhead, and then see it recede in the distance, all the while staying on top of the horizon.
That doesn't happen.
What really happens is that the sun seems to appear from
under the horizon, passes overhead, and at sunset falls back
below the horizon,
all the while staying approzimately the same size!. If it was perspective, I would
see the sun shrink down into a tiny dot in the distance. Not only that, but no amount of "perspective" would allow the sun to fall below the horizon line
unless it actually did so.Tom, not only do you not know math or astronomy, you apparently do not know proper eyesight.
Perspective effect? I don't think so, Tom.
{EDIT} Ditto all that for the moon.