But I simply cannot buy that this magical refraction is responsible for all the "see too far" phenomena. I laid out both sides of the issue, and the odds are so small that this refraction can consistently and repeatably make light bend perfectly around the curve, are almost zero. And the odds that as we're hurtling through space at millions of miles per hour, not just the planet, but the entire solar system, and then the galaxy, and that the angle of our north pole towarad Polaris hasn't budged, and that the moon rotates at the same rate as it revolves around the earth ... to the second, those odds are so preposterously small that it would be like my claiming that complex organisms just evolved randomly out of nothing.
I would be more inclined to believe some evidence that "gravity" causes light to bend around the curve. At least that would result in a repeatable and consistent result. But nobody argues that because they realize that gravity does not have that effect on light.
Then please look up terrestrial refraction, how it works, how to calculate it, and then make an informed decision if it can be used as an explanation for bent lines of sight.
Here is a good calculator, as an example I chose the 273 miles world record line of sight distance and it's parameters, which gives you a
k value for refraction, which you can put into the terrestrial refraction formulas that I posted earlier and that you can look up everywhere.
http://walter.bislins.ch/bloge/index.asp?page=Advanced+Earth+Curvature+Calculator&state=--22743.2-9439350.91-9-31760.6569-40.41974412-10.034081287-9-9-2#AppBecause the other explanation of so called
atmospheric lensing is a baseless, unscientific claim with no evidence for it's existence. Even if it did exist, it's behavior would be highly inconsistent and definitely looks much more like a human ad-hoc explanation.
That is looking at the issue from both sides then I guess?