What is the most distant cast shadow? Would it be a silloette of ancient historY?
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Not really - As it would travel at the speed of light (or the lack of) - but there would be a delay of a few picoseconds.....
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For Ender's Game characters, try http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/endersgame/canalysis.html\n\nFor Ender's Shadow, Try looking at http://www.scwu.com/bookreviews/h/CardOrsonScottEndersShadow.shtml
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Given enough imagination, you can explain almost anything with a sufficiently large dataset to draw on: see Slutzsky's Theorem and think about it in terms of things outside time series analysis...\n\nHaving said THAT, the theory has been advanced that these sightings actually could fall into numerous types of categories; some are quite probably purely psychological phenomona, others are probably illusions or misperceptions; some may well be a cockeyed chain of events that are (individually) quite mundane but which are bizarre as a chain--field effects and the like.\n\nWhat I have heard suggested by serious, rather free-thinking but otherwise hard-nosed physicists is that there may be the temporal equivalent of a wormhole: something that will transmit light across large spans of time, but little else, other than (perhaps) other fields and possibly pressure waves (=sound).  Do I buy that?  No--nor do I reject it out of hand, either.  HOWEVER, it is interesting to note that spectral appearances are invariably from the past, and often from the distant (but not too distant) past.  We're talking years to a few centuries, rarely if ever millenia, and I've never heard of a ghost CroMagnon or Astralopithicus or even Homo erectus or whatever.  This suggests that there is a distancing issue--you can only jump so far forward, so to speak, or the perception can only be so long delayed.\n\nThis thought is potentially one that is experimentally testable, actually--or at least potentially so.  Consider this thought: if there is something equivalent to a wormhole or quantum tunneling through time, it is reasonable to assume that the larger the distance in time "traveled" the more blurred the image is likely to be.  THUS, you can set up a "grid" of observations that allow you to rate how "clear" an apparation is--things like number of facial features clearly present, whether clothing is present, whether audible and discrete phonemes are heard in any sound made (you might want to go for just consonants; they's likely be disappearing before vowels, and that gets you past most barriers caused by languages differing); and you can set up some sort of tool (how, I don't know) to allow you to rate the probable age of the appearance.  That would probably need some sort of something to identify the period of the spectre--like period clothing, perhaps, which would require a fairly clear apparition, or the legend of who the spectre is supposed to be, and from when--but I leave that detail to you, because you've probably more data to sift and can find more in terms of datable stuff than I can dredge up out of my ol' brain.\n\nThe null hypothesis: there is no relationship between clarity of apparition and putative age of its source.\n\nActive hypothesis: the older the putative age of an apparition's source, the less distinct it is likely to be.\n\n\n\nJust remember: don't expect a single explanation to handle it all, because the odds are that there are multiple phenomona all being lumped together as "ghosts" or "hauntings"...
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For a more detailed discussion, try Wikipedia.  There is applicable information in both the History and Mythology sections.  Happy Star Gazing.
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Funny you should mention that, I had an encounter just this evening. No kidding, it really scared the cr4p out of me. I am due to have my home investigated by a paranormal team this coming weekend and they did warn me that the activity here would probably increase 10 fold. It sure has done that in the past week or so.\nThis is only the second time I have seen a shadow figure in my home and I am sure it won't be the last either.\n\nWhy do you ask this question. Email me if you wanna talk ok?
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Casting Judgment is dangerous, considering your basing it on mortal perceptions.  I stay away from that all together, and just try to be a good person.
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shadow is formed through light.
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An excellent movie! Although I have seen the movie several times and am taking a class regarding the Greeks and Romans, I cannot recall any particular historical difference. You could try imdb.com
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The sundial was around long before the Romans, and long before recorded history.  The simplest form of sundial, the shadow stick, was probably first used many thousands of years ago. The technical name for a shadow stick is a gnomon. The position and length of the shadow cast by a stick stuck straight in the ground can give you a rough idea of how much sunlight is left in the day. Add a few pebbles on the ground to mark the shadow's most extreme lengths and angles, and you've got yourself a sundial.
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Got it for you right here....\nhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=MpboWWrIv6A&search=casting%20crowns\n\nUMMMMMM....you said "for", not "of"\n\nHave fun doing your own search!!
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Oh, not AGAIN !  \nNo we didn't - unless there are several strong light sources there to be able to cast shadows in about five directions at once..........
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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I heard it's all a sham...something about a shadow and not being able to see stars...who knows, i heard there is a documentary explaining that
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You are not talking about "souls". You are talking about noncorporeal shadows. I have had several problems with this myself. Aside from dismissing it quickly as a figment of the imagination or an optical illusion (same thing). Please consider these possible alternatives:\nGhosts (similar to souls, anyway)\nExtra-dimensional beings(Who knows, aliens>?)\nAnd Boogeymen! (I'm real serious!).\n\nWhen I was little, two shadows lived in my closet (I know right!). They were similar to a man and a woman. This went on for about a year and on several occasions I woke my parents up to investigate. Of course, they found nothing. the problem was when a light was turned on they would fade rather rapidlly. And it wasn't quite a fading, it was like they seeped into the walls. I would here them whisper sometimes, and I could only half make it out. It was kinda like they would say whole sentances in the space of one word. They had a mischiveous (sp?) personality(ies). Sometimes they would merge as well. I couldn't say they were out to do harm, but there was a certain aspect of "spying". \n\nThere have been several strange "sightings" since my childhood. Small black spheres that zip across the room when I would turn a light on.\n\nOnce, and this was the only time anyone else saw the balls, was after we moved to another state. I was 14, and my sisters just a tad younger. We were in our playroom and a large thud was heard above us. The cieling seemed to "warp" down several feet and then return to normal. After that me and my sister saw aball several days later. I didn't say anything, because I thought she hadn't seen it. She asked me what that was and I said honestly, I don't know.\n\nAs for the shadow couple mentioned earlier. They disappeared as follows:\n\nThey scared me quite a bit, not intentionally of course, but they didn't like the fact I reported them to my parents either. I can't quite explain how they showed this, but their actions seemed to indicate an overall need for secrecy. \n\nOne day I simply asked them to leave. They opened a "door of light" in the back of my closet and simply walked out of my life.\n\nOddly I was 7 siblings, but the sister with me when I saw the black sphere in the new house was the same one who took my room when I moved into my dad's office at the old house.\n\nI am not claiming anything other than this is a rather strong experience from my childhood. I have found a few obscure authors who document similar things. Obviously, you could understand why no sane adult would talk about this. \n\nBTW, when I was sleeping they would come up real close and "stare" at me. Then like children themselves, do something very similar to what you mentioned, gently nudge me or poke my pillow.\n\nAnyhow, if you don't mind them, see what happens. Otherwise when you think they are around (if they ever come back) and you want them gone for good, just tell them.\n\nWho the hell knows what those things really are.
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EBAY..look up charmed book of shadows the seller is tonia-dean the book is expensive but AWESOME. hope you find it
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Proxima Centuri. About 4.2 light years away. Check the foll link for more info\n\nst
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hello, acorn, ....they say there was a  phantom of the opera ...he was real they say. so i assume so. and i am very much in agreement as to people giving sarcastic answers ...hmmmm.so , yes ...i believe there was .