Solar Eclipse Rabbi Friedman The Lakewood Scoop

all the trouble okay by side um obviously what we going doing here talking about the which the solar eclipse but since we have a little time we want to try to get as much as a background information so that it it fits it's not just I mean you could talk about the eclipse in two minutes really but if you really want to understand what's all about how about being and why the eclipse seems to be so erratic like if I was going to ask you you could answer if you want does anybody here know what the hment is for the eclipse like when is the next eclipse happen anybody know no5 years it's it's really it's a daunting question that I I have Comm out anybody maybe two people that have known the answer to that and once you hear the answer it's almost embarrassing but I'm not going to say it up front we'll say it as we go should say it the answer is is Li the answer is that there really is a solar eclipse every single month okay once every 29 and a half days why that is why it's not and old we're going to get into that it's really quite interesting quite fascinating so that's really a big chunk of this year of what's pra 29 days and why it does or why it doesn't happen and also you know with the whole the whole the whole and everything starts with a very interesting says says says could couldn't that's very interesting you know because I don't know a little complicated here complicated it's very interesting says he had to show exactly what is and so the ter that it's one of those things that while you can learn about it intellectually but until you see it actually doesn't really come together so sometimes by seeing it just spish for like a few moments everything comes together so it really is a tremendous uh help to try to make it visually so we can get a picture of it and it really all comes together very nicely and it takes away a lot of the complications okay so here we go so we're going to start from the beginning I'm going to assume that nobody knows anything so if you T do nothing you know to feel uncomfortable I'm going to start from Al and we'll work our way up until we get to the but by the the way I just want to tell you that we're going to build one step at a time so if something doesn't seem to fit what you learned in high school or later on you give me a little time because eventually we'll get through it I want to build slowly so while we're building it it's not doesn't seem to work but end of year we'll get to it and the idea is really really the absolute L part of the she so we have to put a lot of pieces in place before we can get to the last of which is solar eclipse okay so we're going to start with like simple um if I was to ask you difficult question what is this what are we looking at what are we looking at the world the globe this is our world this is where we live right this is we live right here New York Florida Cuba Mexico right and then um okay let's so the world basically turns on its axis and as it's turning it gives us 24 hours to turn on its axis and that's what give us our day now as we're looking at the globe now we have to remember some one thing very critical and that is we see the whole world lit up very nicely but the world does not have any light on its own we have bulbs occasionally but the light the whole world being lit up that's that where does the light come from it comes from the sun the Sun Shines on our Earth and therefore it's lit up so what comes out because of that what comes out is that only half of the world is always lit up and the other half of the world is always going to be dark okay we'll see that in a minutes but what I'm showing over here is um this is a man-made thing the concept of latitude and longitude lines um mankind over over history decided that we need to identify locations in on the globe throughout the world where person is in order to be able to identify where he is okay if you're on land you say okay I'm here I'm on Maple Street in Lakewood New Jersey Thomas River whatever so I know where you are but what happens if someone is right over here right and his b starting to sink where are you CLS up my sinking and come right you know come save me so the guy okay where are you I'm middle of the Pacific Ocean by the way this is the Pacific Ocean covers over here the world so now where on the Earth are you it would be impossible to identify um how to get to where I am so that's why they over the years they came up the system of dividing the world into 12 sections going this is latitude and this longitude so these these latitude longitude lines gives us indications I'm at Latitude number this longitude number they have numbers they have degrees so all of a sudden the world is much it's a more smaller place now you can identify where you are and um of course obviously comes a tremendous tremendous help but is really aw Al an added feature which is going to be not just teaching geography over here also not the latitude lines but the longitude lines so like I said latitude there's 12 12 sections but longitude there are 24 sections those 24 correspond to the clock 24-hour day and we'll we'll see a little bit later how it actually comes in very very important okay so basically this is world and like I said it's all lit up the world is lit up so if I was to ask you let me go back a little bit if I was to ask you in this room where I'm saying that light for the world comes from the Sun so we're in this room with the with the Sun be what do I mean would the sun be on this wall and give me this effect would it be on that wall giving me this effect would it be on that wall or this wall where would the sun be to give me this effect anybody want to give me go ahead right here here right exactly right in the back of room because the whole globe is all lit up so the light is coming from the center back if we're coming from here so now I'm going to show you what what happens when we take the Sun and we move it to the side over there to M so what happens is that this side of the world is kind lit up but the other half is dark because other half is not getting the sunlight from the Sun so only half the world is lit up and that's the M that's it always is half the world is always lit up okay now what we're going to do is we're going to be giving this year and the way the talks about it and that is from our perspective here on Earth we're not doing a scientific presentation over here because there's a question the sun go around the earth the earth go around the Sun there always that debate in the and scientifically it's been proven that um everything B revolves around the Sun but it's not aay and it's not a steer to anything says not because the is always talking about how do we see the sun and the stars as standing here on Earth we don't we're not flying up in the north star as be looking down on Earth we see it standing on Earth so standing on Earth we don't feel that we're turning we we also see the sun rising every morning in the East or the misra and going overhead and going down Mar so we see the Sun moving around Earth that's where talks other P so that's the way we're going to give our she that's really what's neg to us the other way is not really NE to us at all okay so here we go so I'm going to show how it looks like when the sun is revolving around the our Earth and you can see how the shadow changes as the sun is moving around so stop it right there so we see the sun's on the mar side now the mar side of the earth is lit up side is dark night right and here we go and basically this is the way a day is the way we experience it but there's still one adjustment that I need to make before we can continue into the actual sh the way we're looking at it now it seems I'm going to move back and Dr it seems like the sun is going around our our plane or our Horizon that we live on the truth of the matter is we don't see the Sun that way we see it going above our heads so I'm going to turn the whole model around nothing is changing just our point of view so I'm changing it so that it looks like and feels like what we actually experienced going to turn it just a little bit one more time and now we're looking at the we're looking at the world from the North Pole this is the North Pole okay and let me do one more adjustment over here let me see if I think it's coming up okay here we go so and we're standing right over here so we're standing on top of the world everybody feels like he's standing on top of the world no matter where he is so it doesn't make a difference where he's standing but that's way we feel we're standing top of the world and whatever land he's standing on right now is not Thea at all us maybe later on if we get to it but for now this is this and he's watching how the son is about to do what what is his son about to do this line here is our horizon line it's the is the Horizon so now if the sun was above our heads when he started and it's now at that point it's about to set at the Horizon right and as soon as it goes Bel below that that's going to be and he cannot see below this red dotted line okay that's what this red dotted line is so right now we can call this go back and drop but this is really when the sun is completely below the horizon and then another 50 40 45 70 72 minutes when the sun is further down and that's the way a day goes for us the sun continues going underneath our world by the way it's going to go back and Dr if we look over here just a drop I'm going to go back if we look over here where we're standing I'm going to go back a little bit more in our neighborhood in our neighborhood where we live where we stand it's all lit up because it's still day the sun didn't set yet it's started to set but where we're standing it's still relatively light late in the afternoon but as the sun goes down to Shia the sun is now below the Horizon look where we're standing over here it's becoming dark because that's what's happening right is coming in this gray area is the area and the when the sun is finally down a little bit below the Horizon it's completely night in the little in the section we live it's okay so that's night and then of course the Sun goes underneath the Earth at night and now it's about to give us what not all together one time sunrise good okay so it's going to have sunrise in a few minutes so this right over here the sun is about here it's called okay that means the Shak is about to come up the morning and then when the Sun finally reaches and breaks through the Horizon is called that's a that the Sun the itself broke through the The Horizon that's okay so then it doesn't stop over there it continues till it reaches that point so if I was to ask you for our friend standing over there what time is it for him what time is it right okay excellent now I'm going to ask you another question what time is it now for him what's about now what time is it now one who said one I good but it's a trick question you it's a trick question can't it's such an easy question it's really a trick question why is it a trick question it's a trick question because I should have you should have asked me for whom what time is it for whom I'll explain to you why because take out my pen I for got my pointer the sunw it's positioned here is approxim Ely with this line over here okay so if a person's living here he looks straight up he sees his sun above his head straight for him it's 12:00 for us standing over here it's like 1:00 cu the Sun moved one latitude longitude section so if we can laune sections around and around like we spoke earlier we said 24 sections for 24 hours so it was 12:00 the Sun moved to here now for us it's 1:00 but for him it's 12 but is that wherever the Sun goes if he looks straight down it's always 12:00 now I don't think we're going to get to it but this is the international dayline I I don't believe we'll get through it tonight I still want to come back maybe one time but it's p it's too much for one night but the sun whereever the sun is in that position it's 12:00 noon time and and just that moved 1 hour depending on where we're standing okay so that's just the idea maybe we'll need it later on but for now let's move on are you live welcome here we can continue okay so here we go so I'm G to let this so this is again this is a day we're having now what I'm doing is I'm turning again the globe one time and I'm going to show the same exact thing just I took Mar from there and I put it to the front M put to the back just so that you see all around the effect that uh the Sun going around or world this if you look over here the sun is about to rise you can see how the The Horizon is going to light light up where is it there we go so that's you can see it's coming in his section the coming morning and then as the sun goes down where he stand it's dark and the Sun goes around so anyway that's basically a day in the in the sun okay excellent so now we're going to go into the second section that's so before we go back this want to say we did now we're going to go and then we're going to do and then we're going to do the solar that's four sections now um why is important what is is very important because we're going into must come out which is spring season if not you have to make a which was this here you have to make other base two others to straighten out the calendar which we're not we're not going to get to D but the point is that is really it means the seasons of the year year there is four seasons for the year summer summer fall winter and spring those are the Four Seasons the season that's important to us is this season that we're going into now which is or spring season okay that he could have taken at any time in the year but he D chose which is the most time of the year it's not too hot not too cold they go They're going to go out they should be able to go that so there are four each is three months right 12 months to the year each is three months 4 * 4 is 12 okay so here we go so we're going to talk about that's why I have to turn the model this way okay here we go I turn the model this way and we'll stop it in a second now one I didn't do I didn't I think I wanted to do this line in the middle is a very critical line even though I didn't I didn't emphasize it over here but this line is a very critical Line This does anybody know what that line is called it's the equator right it's the equator which means that the globe the world basically in a certain sense is divided in half this half is the Su side Northern Hemisphere this side is the Southern Hemisphere and this is the demarcation line um okay but we're going to see a little bit later how it's important but for now the sun basically on a very basic level when it travels around the earth it goes along equator okay that's not an absolute statement like I said I'm building but so now that's where we're at it goes along the Equator and as we see it over here basically following the equator as it's making its turn around the earth okay okay so that is the basic throughout the day and and the beginning OFA now but and here's a big but it doesn't stay at the equator it shifts the sun shifts now if we look at this new line that's coming up that's the shift that the sun took from the original Mahal over here and as we as we see the sun turning every day a little more a little more it's going to shift a little more and a little more every day towards D side don't ask me why we'll talk about it soon but for now it reaches a certain point in dorm side and it's going to start coming back now it's going to start coming back like a big hand that's pushing the back now it's coming back to where it came from and it's soon going to be going right above the equator let's see probably about now yeah but it doesn't stop there either it's going to continue going now towards Sant side okay and the Sun is going more and more every day towards s and this this uh shift is a shift of three months each shift is three months so went to D 3 months now it's going towards itself in 3 months and it's going to go back at some point probably about now I think yeah yeah at this point it's time to come back now and going to go back to the equator at another 3 months and that gives you a 12 months which is another way of measuring by the way how do we know a year is 365 days and the there are many answers but one of the way the answer is that when the sun comes back to the equator okay on the eax day that's similar 365 and A4 days went by because it takes 3 months going this way 3 months back 3 months this way three months back this is 12 months and that's how we know that a year has passed one of the ways okay so now sha is why does that happen and what effect does that have on us living in the world on in our world okay so here we go so in order to understand that a little bit better I'm going to enlarge the world turn you what I do can make Bigg and smaller um so okay so enlarging the world and why because we want to show a little detail okay what other the detail I'm looking for these two these two bullets here's our red friend he lives right over here and our green friend lives right over here so we said this is the Equator so this half is a southern hemisphere so our red friend lives in the southern hemisphere two L latitude lines the sections towards dorm and our green friend also two latitude lines away from the equator on the Northern Hemisphere so these two guys really are perfectly balanced Mir mirror image of images of each other being that they're both two sections and two sections are lined up exactly on the same longitude line okay so these two guys are going to be are going to teach us a lot now watch what goes on let's go here we go so now as we see the sun rising now let go back to Dr let me see this what are these two guys experiencing now they're experiencing night right it's dark they're middle sleeping how much longer is their night still going to be well if we set each longitude section is 1 hour 24 for 1 hour section so he's still going to be sleeping for about close to two hours as is our friend here both of us us and them have about another two hours for the night till what what happens till the daylight comes in where we're living where we are and now we're both experiencing our day is beginning so both of our days both of us are experiencing day and night exactly like each other okay but here's the big butt we said that the sun does not go on the equator throughout the year it keep shifts now it's going to shift first towards D like we saw before look what happens when the Sun starts shifting it's not so noticeable yet it didn't shift that much just basically one uh longitude section latitude section you can see already a little bit that this shift this this uh um whatever you want to call it this line of Shadow day night line is start to shift by him it's almost morning him he another 3/4 of an hour to an hour for day but as the sun is going to move more and more towards D let's stop it right got away from me let's stop it right over there moves over a lot more towards dor we look over here the shift is much stronger now we have another hour 3/4 per night by him morning is coming you know why why is that because the sun is angled and when the sun angles it also angles the shadow because the shadow is built by the Sun so the sun is angled the shadow is going to also built and the day is going to be affected by that let's look over here and here we really see a huge na right here we have we're going to experience night right at this point our friend in the southern hemisphere has another good two hours before his is going to come in okay and and that's going to happen until the day of so what do give us it gives them their longest day look how much longer the day is than our day and he gives us the shortest night okay rash says by the Mish rash says that when they fill up they have to put oil they had to put enough oil that it could burn and since the Mish all of it is in the northern hemisphere here's right about over there so this whole hemisphere is experiencing its longest night during T so you have to fill with enough oil so it can burn a whole night and that's what KU give us the longest our longest night shortest day one more thing it does for us it gives us our coldest season and it gives them the war season and the answer is I think quite obvious if the Sun is angled going this way angled the the the strong raise of heat is going to come here and this area will be getting just like a a very uh angled Reflection from the Sun so the sun is the day is not going to heat up so much also day is longer there's more time to heat up so that's what happens to KU Tavis but we said it doesn't stop over there it's going to go back and as it goes back the day night it's GNA start equalizing a little bit let's see see look right over here you see quite quite obvious not such a big difference between us and them as it stens out even more look at that it's very very close but now when the sun is going to finally reach the Equinox one more time look how look how perfect the day is perfect day and night Sun's right in the middle Equinox our day our night at the exact same time which means that s Us in the Northern Hemisphere and them in the southern hemisphere they have a day which is actually divided into two parts into 12 12 hours day 12 hour night okay whatch March 2 okay and then we have so that brings us to where we are now which is important to us the is when the days and nights are really becoming very much equalized now of course there are going to be a lot of an anomalies between actual Zan because of change of time and because of location on Earth but we're talking about an average now and we're talking also about people that live on the equin that's where they get the most perfect day night 12 hour day 12 night so anyway reach Nissan we see that the world is perfectly balanced the Sun comes Mish down the center of the uh equator and the day night is mish exactly the same s Southern atmosphere atmosphere but we said it's going to stop going towards itself so now we're going to see it Shifting the other way here we can see right away that it shifting now all of a sudden our day is becoming longer his day is shorter and his night's going to be longer as it shifts more the angle gets more extreme see here it's really ex scream because we're coming into the day of here we go theas is when the sun is most extreme towards s and the most extreme day night between us and our friend in the southern hmere see see over here how strong the nothing is it's a good two 2 and 1/2 hour difference in the morning and 2 and 1 half hour difference at night also okay so here here we go now as it's coming back towards the middle again now we're going to finally um by the way was time is is summer because we have longer days in the hot season right as the sun comes up towards the middle again that's going to be so the sun comes up exactly middle of the globe on Equator the day of and the day of okay two days there by the way two days of equino St okay so that is is the uh theas the idea of now question is not a question it's really a it's not a question but it's a problem it's not really a problem it's a problem fact anybody looks at the charts that you see the gumar Articles charts and other charts which is correctly done I'm not knocking at it all but there's one point that's missing and they and and here's the point this critical point point we don't live over here we live over here this is actually show New York is even more a little bit towards the North or S so we don't live up on the on the equator everything that we spoke about till now has to do with someone that lives on the equator but we live towards the S side Northern Hemisphere so this is where we live so in order to make this whole chart work how we feel it how we see it I'm going to angle this globe so that we're on top of the world instead of our friend in the uh on the on the equin so here we go so this is us this is us now when we look up we see a very different picture all of sudden let's go back to Dr now when our friend on the on the uh on the Equinox on the what's called equator looks up on the day of let's sayen he sees the sun directly above his head but we don't we never see the Sun Direct above our head cuz we live towards and therefore even on the most perfect day which is that day we look that the sun is going to be for us towards D anybody that's going Lear there a long long R over there long rash talks about this phenomenon that the sun when it comes up M it goes towards D then comes back to to my then goes toward s very hard to understand unless you understand what's going on over here with this picture cuz you see the sun is coming up M but immediately it's heading towards dorm and when it's coming down towards it immediately heads towards over there so this is a very critical point and all that we show till now happens now on that angle that we uh experience based on where we live okay so I want to move ahead quickly because this is going to take some time so I'm going to Mo real fast forward so basically it's the same concept but being that we live over there everything looks shifted okay now here we come to the main point himself okay here we go is tied into the into the solar eclipse every solar eclipse will be on will come out on the day of on the day of the you see this week this week today was the mo day no no tomorrow's Mond was Tuesday so the aren't always the same day because of other factors but basically the idea is that the the the I'm sorry now the the solar eclipse is exactly tied in to the why is that okay so here we go so this is what we saw till now we we put also the moon into the equ into the equation now if we look up and the Moon is dark the question why I make it dark the answer is two reasons first of all the moon has no light of its own same like we said about Earth has no light of its own we the lit Side of the Moon now is facing towards the sun which is way way back there looks like it's right here but it's not it's really way way back there and if you go around the back everybody wants to go to the back see the side the Moon is lit up in the lobby The Other Side of the Moon is lit up um but for for our purposes it's dark we don't see it because it's uh it's there's no light coming to it but what this is also giving also telling us is if I'm standing here and I want to see the sun the Moon is blacking blacking me from from seeing the sun and the day it's blacks me from seeing the sun that's what a solar eclipse means that it's black the Moon is blacking our view of the sun question is what happens is this just a one time thing so we're going to explain a little bit what the what the moon does which is very different than what we saw till now and most people don't cap the moon it's very complicated but hopefully the visual it'll be much simplified so okay here we go the moon and the sun this is the beginning of the month this is uh your day one they nicely lined up above our heads and we said that's the of and we'll explain what m means soon and we'll also explain what the the uh we had a oops here we go what happened okay here we go let's go back we almost had okay so was going to say you a story about now say in a minutes um okay so the sun we saw we tell we saw the Sun starts out noon time and it's going to go towards Mar and go below the Horizon and to most people surprise that's exactly what the moon also does let's watch look at the moon it's going together with sun and as the sun circles our Earth the Moon is riding along with it okay but look what's happening all of a sudden we come back to the same spot as we started out and they're not L up anymore they're not perfectly lined up what we see is that the Moon fell back a little bit that the sun is going a little quicker and the moon is going a little bit slower when we started out beginning of day one there was no we could not see any of this little Crest over here at all was completely blacked out it's a lot quicker I'm sorry it's a lot quicker it's a the sun is a lot quicker than the mo because not only is it it's a biger circle you're right scientifically for our purposes yeah good true listen we'll get to it later we'll get to it later sun is about 93 million miles away and the Moon is about 80,000 mil away 800,000 mil okay whatever we'll get to that soon but right now the for our purposes we see how the Sun is traveling quick but the truth of the matter is just going back to what you said when we look at the sky the moon and the S much exactly like to us sizewise they are this they am the same size and when when they're traveling on the sky they look like they're traveling like we see it over here that's the visual okay get everything is a visual cuz the whole is based on how we experience it when we see that's I could say it's it's the Earth turned towards the sun it's not relevant what we feel and what we experience that's what counts so we see over here now that the Moon is fell back a little bit and we can start seeing a little bit of the new moon the crescent and right over here now going to go back and Dr one more time so heart is like this so if M I'm going to go back to the m moment which is a critical moment if the moment of M nothing can be seen can't see anything because they're right on top of each other and all the L up side is on the other side of the moon so here on Earth we can't see anything so the moment of it's not seeable says that first six month first six hours you can never see the sun the moon sorry first 6 hours of the new moon of the mother from the M you can never see the sun now if we look over here here's is the moon blocking the light of the sun I'm sorry why isn't the moon blocking the light of the sun why is the moon not blocking the light of the sun we're going to get to that hold that hold that question very critical question very critical question now when they when they come to the to the iic towards the horizon they're literally still on top of each other and once they set 6 hours passed and we had really no opportunity to to see the new moon because two sun is right on top of the moon and the Moon is completely still the angle is totally wrong let's see what's happens the next we can throughout this time of course we can't see anything below our Horizon now theoretically we should be able to see the new moon over here CU finally there's a little space between them and we see more of a Preston but since the sun is so bright light and this little sliver of light it doesn't show up compared to the Sun at all clown night right and we look over here is separated quite a bit but not enough you can never see the moon here because it's so thin and it's right in the line of view from the Sun so you can't see this no matter what finally when is the first time Adam can come and say that we saw the new moon that's the end of usually end of the first day beginning of the second day again 6 hours 24 hours about the basics now so what's what are we looking for we want to get the Sun out of out of the way because as long as the Sun is up there right next to the Moon we can't see the new moon so we have to wait for this moment right here here is where Adam could see the new moon for the first time why because the sun even though they're right still right next to each other and if we look at it should be blown out but the sun is below the below the Horizon so the the St the real right LIF of the sun is really covered by the by The Horizon so now the Adam can look and see the new moon for the first time and that's what best about how they saw saw the new moon where was it was it up behind the sky lower in the sky was it this way that way all those questions this is what they have to see and if they don't know what they're seeing B is going to figure out very quickly they're not seeing correctly this is the visual that Adam have to see to see the moon now but but and guess what they don't have much time because what's going to happen is Bo 3/4 of an hour later the moon also set never heard that word before right is not just goes down and you can't see the new the new moon for the rest of the night so if you missed it those those three4 of an hour something like that you don't you don't have a chance to a this for that night so B what they do is they go whatever anyway bottom line is yeah that's wait for the next day now again over here you're not going to see this little bit compared to the Sun you're going to have to wait for the sun to and finally finally the Moon is nicely up there you have a nice little time to see it moon is a little bit bigger a little higher up in the sky and the mo the month is is on its way so to speak now so as we see so we're looking at two things as the days go by we we're going to notice how the Crescent of the moon is going to get bigger and bigger as they separate from each other because the angle is going to cause for us to be able to see the LIF the high of the Moon the reflection and also we're going to notice something else I'm going to show you now as they come up right over here when the sun sets the the new the new moon it's not new moon anymore it's a few days old it's much higher in the sky and it's going to give us much time to be mades we have about two and a half three hours now that we can be mades Lon okay now some people the the fourth day usually wait till the seventh day whatever it might be but again you have more time from the and why do we wait for the seventh day because we want to be in the we want to be able to have from the from the liite the mo the moon so obviously we want the moon to be here look start to get starting to have a little more uh Li on his part beginning seventh day sixth day right and uh again the moon was bigger more time up in the sky and well I just want to tell you the story my son had this cute little story that happened to him a bunch of years ago when we did this project the first time many years ago so he he was learning in K in BMG and after they come out and what it was like nice 567 I don't know what it was and they go out into into the after and look it up looking up looking up must be must be a Cloudy night just so we can't see the move that's saying it must be a Cloudy night so he says it's not a cloud night the moon has set set already so they all literally turn around and look at him like he's crazy kind never heard of it but that's what happened that's happen if you wake long enough at night then right over here the Moon is gone for the night you don't have do set night so there you go okay so we're going into the ninth night ninth day and by the ninth day the moon is going to be literally split half and also when the sun sets so this also a nice little thing to know that when the sun sets the first nine days of the of the month where you going to look for the moon come out of this man moon where's the moon it's always going to be towards M side the first n days of the month always towards side and from the ninth day on it's going to it's going to start what happens over here when the sun sun breaks through the Horizon now already it's towards m a little bit and it's also going to be up in the sky for about 7 hours or something like that so as the month goes on we have two miles the Moon is nice and bright gives and we have hours the eight hours we have now to okay so this continues on it's bigger and bigger and bigger as they get further look how much they separated already from each other because the Sun is going continuously quicker and the Moon is falling behind it's about 3 and a half degrees I think every day now let's see something very interesting is going to happen right about now look at this the Sun is going to rise and the moon is going to set at the exact same time now I had I experienced I mean the truth is any time you go out the 15th of the month 14 15 and 16 those days of the month you go out and you you go out by you look towards Mis you see the Moon is rising and you turn around you look towards M and you see the Sun is setting it's an amazing thing to see because at that point the Moon is completely lit up and you have a completely lit up moon on one side a complet lit up sun on the other side literally opposite ends of this car going down one coming up at the same M the same moment that's a 14th 15 and 16th day the month it's that's what's happening over here so you see it sun is about to go down and the Moon is just coming up on the other side okay talks about it by the way but we're not going talks about it but okay see in the 16th night it's also the same same okay so now what happens after the 16th day the Moon is so far behind that the sun is getting closer from the back and when we look at the Moon over here we see the moon is starting to get dark on one side a little bit the side that's away from the Sun stting to get dark and as the sun is going to get closer to the Moon from the back the moon is going to get smaller little bit every day it's going to get smaller and smaller every now if you look over here let's see over here uh 20th night let's go back and drop right here the sun goes down you're not going to have any moon at all for the next four hours because be the scars be without the moon so the second half of the of the month a big part of the night has no moon at all as it get deeper and deeper into the mo okay here we go sun goes down and you have another there almost 6 hours 5 hours till the moon finally Rises scul event finally comes up okay you see how the Sun is hard to catch up to the Moon from other side from the back in the back of it and that's why this side of the moon is lit up the other side is dark so we're getting into the critical uh time of the month now which is really what everything Hackle Backle is totally on that and we'll give another day or two till we uh we'll stop it again just look at it okay so you see most of the night there's no no moon finally the moon comes up and a couple hours later the Sun comes and knocks him out can't see the moon anymore and look at what's going on the moon has the sun has so so much caught up to the moon it's literally on its back 29 days passed and now the Moon is as small as it was when when it was difference is it's on the other side of the moon okay we'll explain to in a minute Watch What Happens over here now the moon and the sun are literally almost caught up you see Mish Mish catching up where is it going to catch up catch up right over right there right there this is where the moon and the sun are exactly lined up to the center of the earth center of the Moon that is where the next m is going is is taking place what does that mean sh cuz look at look at the numbers over here 29 days if mileage from one mile to the next was 29 full days right no extra hours or minutes all every M would happen at the same place on Earth all the time 29 days exactly would happen every time the same time of the day but since there are another 12 hours from 29 so let's say 29 would be up here another 12 hours brings us around here ways past the Earth Earth and then it would be over here then 44 minutes that means almost to the next longitude line almost not quite 3.3 seconds so that every mileage come every mileage is going to be is going to happen in a different location on Earth so what's what's what's critical to understand is that is not like every location has its own and every morning it's the same M happens one moment of the month one place on Earth not every location has its m one place we look at M over here M happened above Alaska that's where the actual mud took place and originally the first mod that happened right over here where you standing which is show by the way so right so now if if I was uh I was offered the job to be gabing which I really didn't want and I tried it out and I flopped badly because it happened to be the we week that they called out the m and I got up there got a little nervous and I got the numbers wrong and but if I would have known that what I know now I would have been home free because I would have said very simple you know when M iside 12:00 noon really 12:00 every mileage is 12:00 noon you know why because here like we spoke at the beginning where the sun is right at that location 12:00 no and the moon and the sun line up exactly to Earth on the M it's always going to be 12:00 no so what are we calling back andth exactly you made the it happened here but in ag what time is it now when it happens over here that's how you know you can figure out from the where the actual murder took place if you interest in knowing so that's really what's happened with the Mur was ask you based on this where's the next m going to happen the answer would be again 29 days not NE because it would be the same location 29 days but we're talking about 12 hours not the half a day that means halfways around the earth about over here 44 minutes a couple of seconds 3.3 seconds and if we look over here so the next mod would be there the next mod would be here and the next mod would be there and the next mod would be here bottom line is that every m is is happening in a different location throughout world throughout the world so this is what happens every I don't understand how what's going on over here it's all over the place that's the reason why it's all over the place because T is a very complicated your tag is very very nuanced very very very dtic and say that this this numbers we got but that's now started out by saying that are exactly connected with each other when happens that is when the happens exact same time because what's is when we can't see the sun cu the Moon is black right right up with the Sun so and that's exactly what is is when the moon is lined up exactly with the sun that's the moment of so and are exactly synonymous with each other so someone so you ask a good question before we'll talk about that right now so now the question is if that's the case that exactly the same position and and everything why doesn't happen every month and the answer is it does happen and I'll explain in a minute what's but first before that there's another very interesting over here and that is like this our Earth is 7,9 9 miles across diameter the Moon is about quarter of the size it's 27 it 2,160 mil diameter fine now the sun is 109 times larger than Earth it's 860,000 mil across as opposed to 7,000 860 it's 109 times larger than Earth and it's also 93 million miles away from Earth compared to the Moon which is only 240,000 M from Earth now what does this mean watch what this means right side this is what it means it means that this littlea here that's the moon this little thing here is the Earth this is the sun even more okay and the Sun is I just gave you so what's the over here the follow that we're saying the whole time that when the moon and the sun are lined up with each other the moon blacks my view of the sun when they're perfectly lined up that means and how's that possible how's it possible the moon the sun is Hu gigantic and the Moon is a so how can the Piel thing block the gigantic Sun the ter say that even though the Sun the moon the sun is larger 400 times larger than the moon but it's also 400 times further away from the from from the Moon from Earth so come to since it's 400 times larger but also 400 times further away way that causes for it to look exactly the same size on our side again it's always our point of view what counts and when we look at the sky the Moon a full moon and the sun look like the same size I it's not very simple it's always like you know you have a thumb over here in front of you put it right in front of your eye you can block out head me with my little thumb I put it further away I block out one person the point is the closer it is the moon is so close to us that it blocks out the gigantic Moon Sun so that's what's happening with just for what I made a little model over here is the moon okay here we see that this side of the moon is lit up that means the sun is here and the Sun is going to come closer and closer that means the moon is going to get smaller smaller and finally the Sun is going to go right behind the Moon the Moon is against blacked out because the sun is on the other side now the Sun comes out Contin goes the other side and we see that the other side going to get lit up as the sun continues to go around the other way we're almost done side we have one more question to answer that's the question you asked before which is a fantastic question it's a very big question and the question is like this if the sun and the moon are exactly lined up every why don't we have every month why don't we have and here is the answer of and the answer is as follows the but we say that the the are lined up they're lined up M they're going around all month long m m so when they come back to the same point M that's what m is but there's another component that we have to consider and that is the sorm and that's what we're going to show right now Watch What Happens sorm they are also nicely lined up where it should be right and going exactly in Center the Sun the Moon traveling nicely together but and here is the big butt the moon has a 5 de tilt away from the path of the sun look what happens over here it's shifting away from the Sun about 5° away from the sun and it shifts towards nor 5 degrees and during the year it keeps on shifting now it's towards sou 5 degrees and sometimes exactly in the middle so what comes out from this is that even though they're lined up exactly therefore we have but because they're not lined up the moon will not block out the sun on a regular basis and that regular basis is very very it's very difficult it's also very not does not have ay how to figure out when those 5 degrees when it is when it's not it's it's always within the 5 degrees but we're in the 5 degrees it is so therefore we find that the for an actual solar eclipse or is very erratic doesn't have a steady to say oh every uh six months every three years every five years it's like we saw the is every month at a different location the will also be every time in a different location because it's connected to the moon and and since that's was shifting around this also shifting and it's got the extra 5 de shift back and forth as we see here so we're going to have M but we're not going to have and actually hope [Applause] you