Had someone (not a flat earther but someone who questions everything) hold an egg up to a globe, and shine a light behind it. No matter the angle, the shadow would not get extremely smaller than the egg. How is a huge moon casting such a small dark shadow during the eclipse, specificallythe path of totality? I know there’s an explanation, but could you so I can go explain to him like he’s 1?
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The egg should be around 110 egg-diameters away from the globe. Did the person doing the demo get the distance right? And if they did, is the light source an appropriate size and distance away? Things cast different shadows at different distances and lighting conditions.
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