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Article #1184Re: Why is the sky blue?
From: David O Hunt
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:52
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:52
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My SO speaketh: When my (then) four year-old daughter asked, I told her that when their was a LOT of air, like in the sky, all of that air could act just like water or glass and make a rainbow when the light struck it just right. But, when light DOESN'T hit the air "just right", rather than a nice, neat rainbow, you get all of the rainbow colors scattered everywhere. The rainbow colors, all together, make, of course, white light. But the color of the rainbow that's scattered most is the color we see: blue. And, if some other color than blue were the one that scattered the most, that's the color of sky we'd see. "Air molecules" (or the molecules/atoms of those elements making up the atmosphere) have no color whatsoever, and have absolutely nothing to do with the color of the sky other than in their combined refractory abilities. Signed by Chari's Mommy ------- David
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!linus!alliant!merk!spdcc!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dh4j+ Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science Message-ID: <QfMWu2G00XsF44_7gn@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:52:02 -0500 From: David O Hunt <bluelobster+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: Why is the sky blue? Lines: 19