Message from @Steve Angell
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In this case the lens is the air above the lake which has water vapor, water has a greater index of refraction than air, so it can bend light, this can be demonstrated with a simple car ride, if the interior an exterior temperatures are different enough, you will see the air shimmer when you roll down your window.
This is caused by the water vapors' condensation.
Another example is a glass, filled with water, and a paper with an arrow drawn, the arrow will twist the other way because of the fact that the water had a greater index of refraction than air.
atmosphere bends light a little, sure... but just exactly so that it can follow the globe's curve?
Nope
Infact
It's flawed
Not by a lot, but still
It's flawed
So it's not exact
the fact that it bends like that you mean?
i think it is flawed to say
light would bend that perfectly
to make the earth look flat on a globe
Brb I'll explain in a second
ok sure
:p
I have seen light bend a lot in Arizona. It does not do so with perfection in the air. I also saw it in Colorado and again nothing but perfect bending. There it would be very cold in Denver but warmer in the mountain as the temp difference was so strong. Yes light bent but like a mirage with a lot of waves.
Now in a tank you can get a perfect bend. But air is not a solid fluid.
I have literally had globers claim that you could look all the way around the earth it bends so perfectly. Wow oh wow. That is pure religion. Impossible in reality.
The biggest problem is the light would bend in all different direction based on the movement of the air and air is always moving.
They "test" this. Do their circus act in a water and fluid tank. Nothing at all like air.
The claim is the air bends light to equal the mean curvature of a ball 24901 miles im circumference so as the earth just appears optically flat.
Thats the globe claim
Assumed and assumed refraction
Equal the mean curvature of the earth
Cancel eachother out
Stupid as shit
Globe earth is a fantasy
light refracts upwards .
Anyone who believes this garbage is a dumbshit
Curvature and refraction cancel eachother out. SUUUUUURRRRRRE
It just looks flat. But is a big ball
Thats the globe claim
And there is nothing any globe earther can do to prove their shitty belief
Just assumptions and pseudoscience
We didn't go there