Link 1: two questions to show that your emotional thinking is still stuck in a pre-Copernican age
Question 1:
A human being is standing on a mountaintop looking at the last rays of the sun. He points with his finger to the sun in westerly direction. He stays the whole night on the mountaintop till the first rays of the sun. He points again to the sun with his finger of the other arm. Where are intersecting this two imaginary lines - from the sun to the top of his fingers?
Question 2:
A man wants to phone with himself along a cable that is laid around the Earth globe along the equator. Unfortunately the cable is 1-meter short. The cable can not been strechted. How deep the trench must be cut in the Earth surface along the 40.000 kilometers to win the 1-meter in order to connect the cable to the telephone?