"You cannot make the sun rise. You cannot stop it from rising. It is therefore beyond your power...or any human power. It is therefore in the jurisdiction of what we can term as "a higher power"..."higher" meaning something beyond our reach or control."

I'd like to suggest your wrong on this one L.H.! If we can use, what I'll refer to as artificial power(which we have), one has the ability to never witness the sun rise or forever have it on your horizon.

The ball idea is right on though!