A big thing I can't get my head round about the FE model is the idea that the sun is tiny and really close, when we have literally measured the physical distance we are from the sun. Unless the speed of light isn't constant (?!) D=v/t distance equals velocity divided by time. If we can measure the speed of light on earth, physically. and then reflect radio waves (that travel at the speed of light, which has also been measured) off of astronomical bodies. We get a distance.
I really can't see how anyone can rationally hold both the idea that the sun is 3,000 miles above the "surface", while also observing the experimental data that concludes the sun is 93 million miles away.
Maybe it's that those that believe the FE hypothesis don't understand the method through which we physically measure these physical distances. The most mind blowing concept is someone that does understand this process, while simultaneously holds the idea that the sun is only 3,000 miles away. That's literally the definition of irrationality.
what about the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn thing? I remember it being explained in another thread that the sun "circles" one in the summer and one in the winter, yet the sun's velocity and angular momentum stays constant!?!?! This idea alone breaks everything we know of basic physics and trigonometry. Completely aside from the volume of discrepancies regarding seasons, and the sun's behavior at the poles.
How do the FE folk manage to retain their sense of belief in the model under such obvious refutation? Any, like seriously, any sane person, whom holds an idea, that is shown so obviously to be false, would in every rational respect, concede that the idea is false.
What really fascinates me is the absolute double think involved in continually grasping on to an idea that reality continuously disproves, with this unassailable notion that the evidence to the contrary of this faith must be wrong, obviously with no coherent means of proving so, due to the reality of FE's falsity.
The mind truly boggles. It's cult level brainwashing. It's why I'm here really. I'm fascinated by the psychology of this little cult movement.