Daytime and Nighttime doesn't match a spotlight sun.

I am basing this on the current most widely accepted flat earth model, the one found on the wiki. The map is this:


The theory states that the sun acts as a spotlight, illuminating a circle of area on the flat earth while moving across it.


However, this only matches summer day-night cycles. For example, during the spring and autumn equinox, at some point, the day-night on earth would have to look like this:



And even worse, during the winter solstace, the day-night would look like this:



A simple spotlight could not make these paterns, so the spotlight theory of the sun simply does not work.

There never will be a model that will match the sunlight hours based on a flat earth. I have been challenging this since I started watching flat earth YouTubes for the laughs a year ago. Funny, in all that time I have not had one response. Don't expect one soon.

Yep, this is a rather glaring issue. To further illustrate this problem, a while back I plotted the location of the sun during sunrise and sunset for 4 different cities during the december solstice. See if you can spot the problems!

Yep, this is a rather glaring issue. To further illustrate this problem, a while back I plotted the location of the sun during sunrise and sunset for 4 different cities during the december solstice. See if you can spot the problems!

Wow, look at the difference between sunrise/sunset in New York vs Punta Arenas!

Wow, look at the difference between sunrise/sunset in New York vs Punta Arenas!

My favorites are sunrise between Punta Arenas and Sao Paulo, and sunset between Punta Arenas and Los Angeles. The light from the sun must be jumping over Sao Paulo and Los Angeles!

A simple spotlight could not make these paterns, so the spotlight theory of the sun simply does not work.

Don't make me bring out DET 

Quote from: origamiscienceguy on October 23, 2016, 05:04:09 PM

A simple spotlight could not make these paterns, so the spotlight theory of the sun simply does not work.

Don't make me bring out DET 

Do it!

I made it vwrybclear that this was based off of the wiki model.

So, are no flat earthers going to weigh in on this?

this doesn't work because the flat earth model doesn't work. 

One other issue with the spotlight sun model: the sun would not "rise". There would be no horizon line. We would never see half of the sun. It would just be a dim ball moving toward us, getting brighter as it came closer.