Jakarta –
There is an idea that the Moon is not made of or contains rocks at all. This idea arose because the Moon is not actually illuminated by the Sun, but is its own source of light.
This idea was debated because it had to explain many observed phenomena that had repeatedly proven that the Moon reflected light from the Sun.
The easiest example of this is how the differences in the relative locations of the Sun, Moon, and Earth can explain the phases we see on the Moon, if we accept the fact that we see the Moon due to the reflection of light from the Sun.
The idea that the Moon reflects light from the Sun actually dates back 2,500 years, when the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras wrote that “it is the Sun that gives the Moon its brightness.” This idea goes on to explain how this causes eclipses and the phases of the Moon.
In one particularly obscure version of the ‘Moon is not a rock’ theory, people have gone even further and made the claim that ‘rocks don’t reflect light’ and ‘neither does the Moon’. This is very confusing, considering that all the rocks we see are visible because light is reflected from the rock and enters your eyeball.
A simple test of this theory, if you want to do it, is to take an ordinary rock into a windowless room at night and turn off the light.
If you can no longer see the stone, it means you are seeing it through reflected light, which is how all vision works.
If you believe in the ‘Moon emits its own light’ conspiracy theory, you might think that the stones will turn off when it gets dark. Which makes more sense?
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2024-03-14 15:00:40
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