Re: 'why does the Sun shine'

This is a reply to one of the videos by "hollow0rld" who claims to believe Sol is inside Earth. He said he was going to remove his video, but at the moment it may be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6SF4fLo1NM

The video clips I have used may be seen in whole at the following two web sites:

Ask An Astronomer, Caltech

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/video/inde...

http://www.sungazer.net/video/video.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hollow
• earth
• sun
• light
• sunlight
• heat
• nuclear
• fussion
• elements
• photon
• photoelectric
• effect
• photovoltaic
• infrared

[hollow0rld]

is light related to heat ? neon lamps are brighter and cooler, than bulbs. light is not related to heat. light is a apperance, which can appear with heat, but light is not necessarily heat. photons have energy, you can transform them into heat.

[Desertphile]

"is light related to heat?"

Heat *IS* light, idiot.

[themanyone]

What we see is what we are. Keep wishing on a star. Home is not that far when you sleep upon your car.

[jreed136]

I'm pretty sure hollow0rld is nothing but a stupid troll.

[deeliciousplum]

insignificant observer...I love that line. It reminds me of being humble in times where there is an intense amount of uncertainty.

[philip1201]

"A photon turns into an infrared wave"

An infrared wave = a photon of certain wavelenght, right?

[tmafkap]

As long as the photons do not hit the receptors in your eye you cannot see them. As soon as they hit the receptors in your eye, the photons get absorbed by the receptors, thereby the photons cease to exist. So most of the light is "invisible" as long as it shines, and when someone sees the light it dissapears in the very moment.

[paulbottomley42]

That guy MUST be Poe's Law, mustn't he? No one could really think the Sun doesn't exist... could they?

[Paxmax]

hollow0rld said: "light definition: Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red) angstroms and may be perceived by the normal unaided human eye"

That is an OVERSIMPLIFIED definition. When you get into light propagation, passages between different mediums, different wavelenghts and the sun... YOU BET your ass you cannot keep it as simple as that.

[Xorinite]

Tetrachromacy is the ability to see light from four distinct sources.

Humans are normally trichromats, having three types of cone cells that receive light from either the red, green, or blue part of the light spectrum.

Tetrachromacy is thought to be much more common in women than men. Interestingly, colour-blindness in men may be inherited from women with tetrachromacy.

By your definition these people are seeing something with their eyes which isn't light.

[hollow0rld]

light definition: Electromagnetic radiation that has a wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red) angstroms and may be perceived by the normal unaided human eye.

light is a visable radiation.

[Paxmax]

simply NO.

Just because YOU can't see the entire light spectrum doesn't mean YOU will/can decide what is "light" or not.

A funny thing contradicting your "exemple" is:

You (hollow0rld) are warm and emit infrared light but you are not especially bright.

=o)