On the first day of spring and fall the flat earth crowd believes the sun travels over the equator. The heading of the sunrise at Portland, Maine is due East. The simultaneous heading of the sunrise in Santiago, Chile which is South of the equator (but also at 70 West longitude) is also due East. These facts are indisputable. So either we have two suns or the sun is millions of miles away. If the sun is far away then a flat earth would have sunshine 24 hours a day.
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Or the sun travels in a circular path, where those in Portland are inside the circle, while those in Chile are outside the circular path of the sun.
As sunlight travels over an distance, the wavelengths gets shorter and shorter. Once the wavelength gets small enough, light goes from being in the visible spectrum to being ultra violet, and to our naked eyes the sky will appear darker, until it is all black, as we no longer are able to see any visible light.
"Or the sun travels in a circular path"
Or?.. so you're not sure?... But I mean we can all go an observe the phenomenon if it were true... And yet here we are?
C'mon guys...
You yourself could always travel to the North Pole next summer and experience midnight sun for a couple of weeks. That is when the sun never goes below the horizon, so you can observe the sun a round the clock, while it makes a circular path in the sky. Every hour, make a mark where the sun is in the sky, after 24 hours, make a line through all the marks, and you will see that you made a circle
Been there done that while banging tin for over a month in NWT.. to simply put it.. earth rotates on an axis and the north pole is angled towards the sun.
The good old 66.6 degree angel towards the sun.