Question

Imagine you are standing in the center of a wide, open field. Where the land and sky meet as far as you can see in any direction is the horizon . If we were to simplify your view, what shape would best represent the full horizon ? Where would you be standing relative to the shape ? Sketch and describe your answer below.

Answer 1

well the experience is something like standing on a flat plain which is surrounded by a half-spherical shell in our common sense we see the horizon as an apparent line that separates earth from the sky but scientifically the horizon is a theoretical line, the true horizon is horizontal and basically it surrounds the observer

the distance to the true horizon from the observer is

d=3.57sqrt(h)

h=the height above sea level