That doesn't explain anything. Perhaps you didn't understand the point. The sun travels at a SET SPEED.
The earth in the SWF animation I posted is also traveling at a set speed. One hour per frame.
He understood that.
According to the FE hypothesis, the Southern hemisphere has a FAR larger area, as such it would need a substantially greater exposure time to achieve the same temperature.
Why would the Southern Hemidisk have the same temperature of the Northern Hemidisk on any given day? They're in different seasons, you know. Days are longer in the summer.
You're misunderstanding. What he meant is the same as what you've quoted me as saying below.
If the sun's light is cast in a round/oval shape, why isn't the southern hemisphere much colder in their summer than the northern hemisphere is in theirs
The Southern Hemidisk would be just as hot in its summer as the Northern Hemidisk is in theirs. What makes you think it wouldn't be? The oval moves upwards for the Northern Hemidisk's summer.
It's not just a matter of where the light is cast. It's a matter of how long light is cast in a specific area.
The area south of the equator receives approximately the same amount of light, total, during its summer, as the area north of the equator does during
its summer.
However, in FE theory, the southern "hemidisk" is not equal in area to that of the northern disc. If the Earth is some value "r" in radius (12,450 miles according to the FAQ), then the northern hemidisk's radius is half that, or r/2. the souther is pi*(r/2)*(r/2) in surface area, or pi*(r^2)/4. Since the total surface of area of the earth would be pi*r^2, the southern hemidisk's surface area would be pi*r^2-(pi*r^2/4) or 3/4*pi*r^2.
So the southern hemidisk would have a surface area of exactly three times that of the northern hemidisk. Since the same amount of light is shining over more surface area, and the light is what's heating that area, the southern hemidisk would have much colder summers and
much colder winters than the northern hemidisk would.
how is this oval distortion accomplished?
Imagine a flashlight shining down upon a round dinner table at an altitude of one foot. Angle the flashlight just a tad and you have an oval spotlight instead of a round one.
Yes, Tom, but there is a major problem with that analogy. To make the sunlight that much of an oval shape, the sun would have to be China, or on the other side of the ice wall, when it's shining on America. Plus, your relativistic lensing only works when pointing straight down: it's based on the direction of acceleration.
The only way we would see that much of an oval shape, with the Sun a sphere and the spotlight effect caused by relativistic lensing, would be if we were constantly accelerating towards the sun, and our direction of acceleration were therefore constantly changing. In that case, since that acceleration is the only thing keeping us pinned down on this planet, we'd definitely feel the difference in acceleration. We'd all be feeling acceleration constantly pulling us either always north or always south. It would be especially prevalent in ocean travel.