Cecil Moore wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
The terms are used by meteorologists and scientists as well as laymen.
Yet I know of no one who believes the Sun is moving across the sky.
My logging program tells me both Sunset and Sunrise times for distant
locations. It references no illusion. It simply uses those terms.
What do you call the period when the Sun first becomes visible each day?
What do you call the period at the end of each day, when the Sun ceases
to be seen? Do you actually refer to the illusion of Sunrise or the
illusion of Sunset?

But lots of people believed the sun was moving across the
sky when the term "sun rising" was coined. The rising of
the sun was and is an illusion. The sun does not rise -
it just sits there in space.

Though I realize you might have been around at the time the terms were
first used, it is evident that nearly all still use those terms
today--even those in the scientific community. You keep writing, over
and over, that the Sun just sits there in space. We both know that
isn't actually correct either. The Sun rotates and is moving through
space quite rapidly. I've asked a number of times how you refer to the
phenomena of what most of us call "Sunrise" and "Sunset." There must
be a reason that you don't respond to that.

You choose to spend much of your time here tap dancing and engaging in
Vaudevillian banter.

Dave K8MN