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Article #1339Re: Blue Sky
From: Mike White
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:42
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:42
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Andrew Mullhaupt writes: > Why is the sky blue? You'll get lots and lots of answers, and I'll bet my tenure that not one of them will address the question "Why?"; they'll all address the question "How?". They'll go on and on about scattering of light from Nitrogen molecules, but the question of "Why?" is much harder. The mechanism that makes the sky blue is well understood, but why does that mechanism exist, instead of one that makes the sky, say, green? This rapidly gets into metaphysics; I think the answer has to do with conditions that make it possible for us to exist to ask the question in the first place. ************************ * These are my opinions only.* ************************
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!mwvm.mitre.org!m14494 From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) Subject: Re: Blue Sky Message-ID: <1992Jul22.154233.21594@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: mwhite-mac.mitre.org Organization: The MITRE Corporation References: <1099@kepler1.rentec.com> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:42:33 GMT Lines: 15