Truman suspects that bright light in the sky may not actually be the sun. What if instead of millions of kilometers away, it is merely hundreds of meters up and attached to an invisible ceiling 'sky'?
He devises a shadow measuring experiment.
He stands a 1 meter stick and a 2 meter stick up vertically next to each other.
The 1 meter stick casts a shadow 3.46 meters long but the 2 meter stick casts a shadow 6.94 meters long. That's more than twice as long!
How high and far is the 'sun'?
x=1208 m from the extreme of the longer shadow
x=1201 m from the sticks.
Both numbers are "rounded".
But in the light of what Charlie says about the precision of this numbers, 7 m is nonsense.
Edited on March 3, 2018, 5:25 am
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Posted by armando
on 2018-03-03 04:26:51 |
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