This amounts to an optical illusion. The ground doesn't "rise" to block your line of sight. It appears to rise, when interpreted in a specific narrow manner. But in reality, there is no object blocking your line of sight.
If I'm standing on the peak of Everest holding laser pointer powerful enough to reach the moon...well you're telling me that would be impossible because something that isn't the tallest point on the flat earth reaches up and interrupts the beam. But I'm already standing on the tallest point. Please explain how I can simultaneously be standing on the tallest point but also have my laser beam broken by something taller. Doesn't make sense.
The ground appears to rise, yes. From the perspective of the person looking into the horizon, the ground will appear to rise to eye level, that is how perspective works. It seems like you grasps this concept, so well done. If you want to call it an optical illusion, that is fine by me, I personally call it perspective though.
Based on this concept, you can understand that the higher you get, the farther can you see over our plain earth. But even on Mount Everest a horizon will form at eye level, and 100% optical.
I am saying that a laser from a top of a mountain, going over the ground, will converge at the horizon as it gets far enough away, from the perspective of the person a top the mountain. The person at the mountain will not be able to distinguish between where the ground is and where the laser is, as the laser gets farther and farther away, that is due to how perspective works. All parallel lines going away from you will converge at a single point. To see further, you need to increase your height, or get a optical zoom device, and from your perspective, the horizon will form further away from you, and you will be able to track where the laser is going for a longer time, and over a greater distance.
This amounts to an optical illusion. The ground doesn't "rise" to block your line of sight. It appears to rise, when interpreted in a specific narrow manner. But in reality, there is no object blocking your line of sight.
If I'm standing on the peak of Everest holding laser pointer powerful enough to reach the moon...well you're telling me that would be impossible because something that isn't the tallest point on the flat earth reaches up and interrupts the beam. But I'm already standing on the tallest point. Please explain how I can simultaneously be standing on the tallest point but also have my laser beam broken by something taller. Doesn't make sense.
The ground appears to rise, yes. From the perspective of the person looking into the horizon, the ground will appear to rise to eye level, that is how perspective works. It seems like you grasps this concept, so well done. If you want to call it an optical illusion, that is fine by me, I personally call it perspective though.
Based on this concept, you can understand that the higher you get, the farther can you see over our plain earth. But even on Mount Everest a horizon will form at eye level, and 100% optical.
So the object that blocks my laser from hitting the moon is....the ground? That's what you're saying?
I am saying that a laser from a top of a mountain, going over the ground, will converge at the horizon as it gets far enough away, from the perspective of the person a top the mountain. The person at the mountain will not be able to distinguish between where the ground is and where the laser is, as the laser gets farther and farther away, that is due to how perspective works. All parallel lines going away from you will converge at a single point. To see further, you need to increase your height, or get a optical zoom device, and from your perspective, the horizon will form further away from you, and you will be able to track where the laser is going for a longer time, and over a greater distance.
It's not going "over the ground", it's 6.8 degrees. Is that beam going to touch the ground or not?