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Okay, I hope I can describe this adequately because I DON'T do diagrams. But imagine you and your friend are standing, say, fifty feet across. A miniature spotlight sun is directly over your friend's head. Where is it in relation to you?



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What you're talking about is parallax. If the sun were very close to theEearth and the earth were flat when it is directly overhead of the eastern edge of the planet it would not appear to be directly overhead of the western edge. The thing is that compared to the width of the earth the sun is really really far away so the parallax shift is too small to notice. This means that on a flat earth the sun will appear to be directly overhead of both sides.



What I'm trying to have answered specifically is how the Flat Earthers account for different sunrise times at different longitudes. If the earth is flat then once the sun rises up above the horizon on the East side of North America there should be nothing to get in the way and stop me from seeing the sunrise at the same time on the west coast. If the sun is a spotlight which only illuminates different parts of the Earth at different times then when the sun appears each morning it should be up in the sky not on the horizon since if it is just beginning to move above the plane of the flat earth my friends on the east coast shouldn't have had two hours of sunlight already.