Eclipse Totality & An Obvious Question

[L E Bryan]

I believe that after a couple hundred thousand years of humans watching the sun and moon move across the sky, the human brain has settled into the feeling that there’s a nice smooth 2 dimensional disc that the sun and moon traverse. But during an eclipse, particularly a total eclipse, that notion jars that set of neurons as a third depth dimension becomes evident. This is why so many folk's experiences during the eclipse are so unfamiliar and strange.

Apparently no other Solar System planet/moon pair have anything close to nice geometry.


 
> On Aug 21, 2017, at 7:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What a coincidence that the moon is exactly the size to just cover the sun from our view, leaving only a brief spectacular diamond ring.
> 
> What are the chances for this perfect moon-sun fit?  Might it be a planned geometry, like that shadow in GR cast across the mountain tops.  We, in our viewing of the Cosmos, might be entertaining ourselves by our creating it.
> 
> An obvious question not asked, for obvious reasons.
> 
> David Morris

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