HOW does the sun rise?

Question

We have to write this essay for class. The essay has to prove that roosters DO NOT make the sun rise. We have to tell how the sun rises. I know WHERE it rises, but HOW? I cannot bring myself to think. Could you help me out?

Answer 1

String....magic string.

Answer 2

Actually, the sun does rise on the yeast coast; yuck yuck yuck! If the farmer chops off the rooster's head Saturday night for Sunday dinner, the sun will still rise. The sun rises from the eastern horizon to a point directly overhead at "high" noon because man considers himself to be at the center of the universe. Of course astronomers try to tell us that the sun stands still in the heavens and the earth spins; like an enormous light switch creating day and night each 24 hour period. Some will even take a basketball (unless they play golf?) and place England and New York thereon separated by the Atlantic ocean (as though those two places were ever really on the ball!). In a darkened room with a single light bulb at a distance (representing the sun) the basket ball can be slowly spun on its nearly vertical axis (with the north pole on top) such that day strikes England before New York. When the light beam is just tangent to New York, the sun is on the horizon about to "rise." When New York is directly opposite the sun it is "high noon." When the light beam is again tangent with New York it is sunset on the western horizon. When New York is anywhere on the side of the ball away from the light it is night. In real time it would take 24 hours for the ball to make one complete revolution. If you place a dot representing the rooster on the spot for New York, it is obvious that the rooster is merely along for the ride as the earth spins; just like the rest of us. Good luck.

Answer 3

The Earth is rotating around it's axis. The sun rises at a point on the Earth when the Earth rotates to a point where light starts to come into contact with that point.

Now to "prove" roosters do not make the sun rise, you might do the following.

1. Prove that the sun rises for other causes.
2. Use another planet as an example. Show that Mars has a sunrise even though no roosters are on Mars.
3. Use the following logical fallacy in your argument.
"The fallacy of false cause (non causa pro causa) mislocates the cause of one phenomenon in another that is only seemingly related. The most common version of this fallacy, called post hoc ergo propter hoc (“after which hence by which”), mistakes temporal sequence for causal connection—as when a misfortune is attributed to a “malign event,” like the dropping of a mirror. Another version of this fallacy arises in using reductio ad absurdum reasoning: concluding that a statement is false if its addition to a set of premises leads to a contradiction. This mode of reasoning can be correct—e.g., concluding that two lines do not intersect if the assumption that they do intersect leads to a contradiction.

Answer 4

Actually the Sun does not rise, but appears to do so because the Earth is rotating on it's axis which runs in a straight line thru the North Pole and South Pole. As the Earth rotates, the Sun appears to move from East to West, climbing higher and higher until High Noon when it is at it's highest(except during Daylight Saving Time. It then descends lower and lower until it disappears over the western horizon. I wish I had a model to show you, but I'm sure you can visualize one.

Answer 5

Are you serious?

Get a beach ball or an umbrella. Find a lamp or good light. Hold the ball or the opened umbrella in one place but turn it in that place, say on a table or barstool-type piece of furniture. As you walk in a circle, you will see the light of the lamp dawn on one side of the circle and then dip out of view as you walk around the circle. The sun is in its same relative position and the earth is moving around it, or orbiting. It takes a fraction over 365 days to make that march. Each one of those days is when the earth completely turns on its axis, that is 365 and a quarter sun rises or 365 and a quarter sunsets. Again, a sunrise is when your view of the sun rises over the horizen as the earth turns.

Answer 6

The sun does not rise, the Earth turns on its axis 360 degrees every 24 hours which makes the sun appear to rise.

Answer 7

It just DOESN'T rise literally. Actually the Earth turns around the Sun and on its own axis, which means that when in NYC the sun is down, it's already up in Europe.
When you think that the Sun is rising, it is actually the Earth's turning .

Answer 8

The sun doesn't rise. The earth simply spins around.

Answer 9

The sun doesn't technically rise. The Earth rotates on it's axis, so it rotates around and when it faces the sun, that's when it's light outside.

When the Earth spins around so it's away from the sun, that's when it'd dark out.

Answer 10

A giant flying hen flies across the sky, carrying the Sun in it's beak. The roosters crow at the hen, so cannot make it rise. The hen is flying before the roosters.

Answer 11

the sun cannot rise but it seems that way. u see, the earth rotates and by this process, makes the sun seem may like it's moving. when the earth spins, the time of day changes and it is shown by the 'movements of the sun.'