04-04-2024, 11:34 AM
(04-04-2024, 04:20 AM)Rainmaker Wrote: The response was, “what will people do if the eclipse doesn’t happen? What if nothing close to an eclipse is observed? Quite the opposite of panic, I’d say. So don’t expect any panic that day”. I asked for further details and all I got was “you’ll see”.
It's physics (well, it's astronomy but physics and math is involved there.)
The eclipse WILL happen. It's a special astronomical event (like lunar eclipses) but there are between two and five solar eclipses here on Earth *every single year* (https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/faq.ph...20or%20two.)
People treat the behavior of stars and planets as if the area over our heads is actually a dome and there's things up there pushing stuff around. The universe is vast, eclipses of one type or another happen all over the universe (and have been happening since the first planet and moon formed). Here's a list of all of them (including ones into the future) for this century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...st_century
It's not magic, folks. It's a neat phenomena and a fun one to see since people living in North America don't have to get passports and travel to see it.
