"In fact, it can be shown that the refraction near the horizon depends mostly on the local temperature gradient, which is much more important than the local temperature itself. For this reason, all the refraction phenomena near the horizon — mirages, dip, terrestrial refraction, etc., as well as the astronomical refraction — are very sensitive to the temperature gradient; and they all vary a great deal more than does the astronomical refraction well up in the sky."
To: "It is obvious that the effect of temperature variation is decisive over the
other atmospheric factors on refraction, to the following proportions: Temperature to humidity to carbon dioxide content to air pressure = 100 : 6 : 2 : 1 "

INVESTIGATION OF REFRACTION
IN THE LOW ATMOSPHERE
By
K. HORV_,.TH
Department of Survey. Technical university. Budapest
(Received Alay 29, 1969)
Presented by Ass. Prof. Dr. F. SAHKOZY

yah...just give me the blue pill.

I know the truth

feelsbadman

@Human Sheeple To do that, you both predict the amount of drop expected in your models and compare it to what we measure

My model?

Sorry I don't do models

models are religions

I do science

measurments ...calculations... science....

Models are part of scientific method

makes my bwain hwurt

@The Big Gambino No they are not

Science uses models

science is useless l0l

No it doesn't

Science is a method

@Human Sheeple Lol you're wrong, how do you make predictions

pilots use maps

not globes

that's part of teh scientific method

air plane

plain

ya-wn

"In an EXPERIMENT , the "INDEPENDENT VARIABLE" is the variable that is VARIED or MANIPULATED BY THE RESEARCHER , and the dependent variable is the response that is measured.
An "INDEPENDENT VARIABLE" is the presumed "CAUSE" , whereas the dependent variable is the presumed "EFFECT" .
The IV is the antecedent, whereas the DV is the consequent."
http://www2.uncp.edu/home/collierw/ivdv.htm

Independent Variable: The variable that is stable and unaffected by the other variables you are trying to measure. It refers to the condition of an EXPERIMENT that is SYSTEMATICALLY MANIPULATED BY THE INVESTIGATOR . It is the PRESUMED CAUSE ."
University of Southern California.
http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/variables

Independent Variable: The variable that the scientist changes during the experiment is the independent variable. Think of the experiment as a "cause and effect" exercise. The independent variable is the "cause" factor.
https://sciencing.com/dependent-independent-controlled-variables-8360093.html
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Anything predictive about a hypothesis is a model

some are more complicated than others

too many theories... too many know it alls...

Models are religions

You literally make predictions with your model, it simplifies things

@Human Sheeple wrong again

how can you be so wrong abou something so simple?

lol 1800's

model = religion

a time where people were heavily brainwashed

go back to the 1400's