'If I am the wisest man,' said Socrates, 'it is because I alone know that I know nothing.' The implication was that I was very foolish because I was under the impression I knew a great deal.Īlas, none of this was new to me. The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece.

It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong. Either way, a setting sun gets blocked by atmosphere as it move away from the viewer.“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. HOWEVER, If the sun is just above the atmosphere horizon yet appears to be on the atmosphere horizon it can be brought above the horizon with a zoom.Īnd sometimes it will just fade away above the atmospheric horizon if the refraction is low enough.Īnd sometimes the Sun will set sooner because of heavy refraction. What’s the matter? You don’t understand the science of how sunlight can be blocked by a vapor atmosphere? And especially so near the horizon from your point of view?

You can’t see the sun at the horizon after it’s been blocked by a 55’000 tall atmosphere (at the vanishing point) from your view point. That's not going to happen with a linear vapor atmosphere where the viewer has to view the sun at the horizon through hundreds of miles of atmosphere. We can't bring back the sun as it sets or after. If all you guys can continue to debate and question my memes here in a meme thread, then I guess I can respond without penalty.

The flat earth society meme