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Another line of student interpretation treats shadow physically as eclipse or light blocked by matter, staying at the level of optics rather than metaphor.
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Eclipse
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "from hell yes that yes it's also Eclipse of light that's how shadow is created"
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The eclipse argument says that if the moon were truly hollow in the relevant way, sunlight would show through it during an eclipse, and because that does not happen the first hypothesis collapses.
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Jiang says the eclipse argument proves the moon cannot be hollow at any point, because a truly hollow section would prevent the eclipse from working as observed.
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A student correctly identifies the eclipse as the reason the hollow-moon theory fails.
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Beatrice's rebuttal begins by showing that a truly hollow moon would not fully black out the sun during an eclipse, so the density-and-rarity account fails its own astronomical test.
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"from hell yes that yes it's also Eclipse of light that's how shadow is created"
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"in this instance is it a lack of light so it's blocking light in a way uh yes you could okay"
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"...in its volume. To validate the first case, in the sun's eclipse, the light would have to show through just as when it crosses..."
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"Okay, so she's saying it is not possible for the moon to be hollow at any point. Why? It is not possible for the..."
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"Eclipse, right? You guys said there's an eclipse. Right? So it's not possible for the moon to be hollow at any point, otherwise you..."
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"...the moon that is hollow and how to explain a lunar Eclipse a solar Eclipse right when the moon covers the sign completely and..."
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"...the moon okay to validate the first case in the sun's Eclipse the light would have to show through just as when it crosses..."
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"...surely is confused okay so she's using the example the solar eclipse to show us that it's not it can't possibly be true that..."
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"...so did beatrice change an appearance and i believe that such eclipse was in the sky when he the highest power suffered then his..."
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"indians too saw that eclipse such fables shouted through the year from pulpits some here some there outnumber even all the lapos and the..."
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"...the Bronze Age collapse, and now we will emerge Rome to eclipse all three and build a world empire, okay? Okay, and what I..."
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