During the day, the sky is blue and the sun appears a bright yellow. As the sun sets, it dims and reddens while the sky turns pink and orange. What causes that? You may have heard before that the sky’s blue color is due to something called Rayleigh scattering. As it turns out, the way…
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How we can know the earth is a ball without relying on modern science or traveling long distances?
Flat earth conspiracy theorists have become a loud (if not very large) group since the turn of the millennium. While there are many specific arguments for a flat earth, which are not worth debunking here, all such arguments rely on an underlying principle that one’s senses are trustworthy and we should believe that things are…
