14th March 2008, 8:04 PM
So you are arguing from ignorance at this point?
The fact is, we know enough about how light spreads from the sun to state outright that if the sun was causing it, we'd notice it's effect to differing levels on other planets. What are you saying about how other planets work exactly?
Also, we DO know a lot about how things work on Earth. The problem with weather forcasting is it's chaotic by nature, so that's not enough. In order to predict the weather at a distance with any accuracy we need to know so much about the starting conditions (to the speed of individual molecules) that it makes it practically impossible. Now, on Jupiter things are simpler. It's nothing but swirling gas and some heat. We can actually predict the weather there rather well.
Are you honestly attempting to argue that we can't with any reliability say that LIGHT DISSIPATES WITH THE SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE?
The fact is, we know enough about how light spreads from the sun to state outright that if the sun was causing it, we'd notice it's effect to differing levels on other planets. What are you saying about how other planets work exactly?
Also, we DO know a lot about how things work on Earth. The problem with weather forcasting is it's chaotic by nature, so that's not enough. In order to predict the weather at a distance with any accuracy we need to know so much about the starting conditions (to the speed of individual molecules) that it makes it practically impossible. Now, on Jupiter things are simpler. It's nothing but swirling gas and some heat. We can actually predict the weather there rather well.
Are you honestly attempting to argue that we can't with any reliability say that LIGHT DISSIPATES WITH THE SQUARE OF THE DISTANCE?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)