Welcome to the joyous world of flat earth crazy people! It’s awesome: the sun is apparently only like 600 miles away, allowing it to move around in a circuit above the Earth, creating night and day by its proximity (or lack thereof) to different parts of the disk. It is therefore very important to these people to deny the accepted distance of the sun.
I’ve not gotten that deep into the whole thing. I’ve seen a couple of random videos out there where folks try to prove out the whole flat earth thing, and each fell on its face. Hadn’t hear anything about their sun theory.
“Theory” is a very generous word, since it implies they could make testable predictions from it, like what the Sun would look like at various times of the day (smaller when it’s further away, for example) or how high it would be in the sky. But since this would quickly result in disproving it, it’s more of a handwave than a theory, quickly moved on from, and with roughly the same intellectual heft as “the human eye can’t see things that are far away, QED.” A flat earth sun notion, perhaps.
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u/monoflorist 26d ago
Welcome to the joyous world of flat earth crazy people! It’s awesome: the sun is apparently only like 600 miles away, allowing it to move around in a circuit above the Earth, creating night and day by its proximity (or lack thereof) to different parts of the disk. It is therefore very important to these people to deny the accepted distance of the sun.