Debunking the flat Earth model.
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He says that even as they physically rotates around the North star, at 12000 miles away from the North star, they will converge at a single point, no matter where on earth you are looking at them, as long as you are looking in a southward direction. That is because of how perspective works, proven by anti crespycular sun rays.
At the 17 minutes mark he specifically says otherwise. Perhaps he is just contradictory.
Stand on railroad tracks and you will experience the same optical illusion as anticrepuscular rays. As the railroad gets further away, it will appear to get less wide and eventually converge at a point. Like a football shape, with the widest part being where you are standing. But in reality, the road is parallel. The same thing happens to the Sun’s rays. The rays are not actually spreading out and then coming back together. They are parallel.
If the Sun’s rays are not parallel, find me ONE example where the observer is not right underneath the widest part. Just like standing on railroad tracks, the perceived widest part is at the observer and it gets narrower in either direction.
Sun rays are parable, indeed. The most southern stars are so far away, that they will appear to us us as if they are making a small circle across the night sky, due to how perspective works relating to the convergence point, when they are moving east to west.
You seem to understand this. Bless you, and have a good day.