Is it the same Sun shining on evryware on erth, or do they have a hotter one in the trupical places

Question

Vote republican

Answer 1

Why should I vote Republican?

BTW - with this question, you are giving your cause a bad name.

Anyway - to answer your question...

There is one sun. At any given time it illuminates one side of the planet.

The reason the tropics are hotter has to do with the angle of incidence of the light.

At the equator (within the Tropics) the sun gets very high in the sky at noon - and so the sunlight as it hits the ground is most concentrated.

At high latitude, the sun doesn’t get high, the a beam of sunlight comes in at an oblique angle and the sunlight is spread out over a larger area and is thus more dilute.

Try using a laser pointer and shine the spot directly onto the floor, then try holding the pointer at an angle so the spot gets smeared out. The same amount of energy per sec is emitted by the laser pointer in both cases, but when the spot is smeared out the same energy is spread over a larger area, so it wouldn’t get as heated

This effect also accounts for seasons

Answer 2

Inordinate number of kooks coming to Astronomy and Space section of Yahoo answers……?

I rest my case.

PS - This guy has 6% best answers in nearly 2000 answers he has delivered.    

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Answer 3

The reason for the hotter effects of the sun in the tropics is due to the angle of the suns interface with the weather system. The suns oblique angle intensifies the solar "Blast".

Answer 4

There is only one Sun nearby our planet. Other stars are light years away -- trillions to quintillions of miles.

The reason that the tropics are hotter is because sunlight has less air to pass through on the way from space to the ground.  

Answer 5

EEEK , scary question - well starters there is only ONE sun  - it is hotter due to how the earth is positioned (not going into detail this time)

Answer 6

you need to go back to 2nd grade where we learned about tje solar system and all that. Pay attention this time.

Answer 7

You can't be serious. Are you the typical repub? No wonder dumbya got elected twice.

Answer 8

No, there are multiple suns.  There's the one that we all see and then there are three more that are invisible; that's why you've never seen them before.  They were just discovered recently along with evidence that suggests there was once a water canopy which made the earth cooler.

Answer 9

yeah, i guess i'd make my Q+As private too.