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Re: Blue Sky

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From: Andrew Mullhaupt
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:12
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In article <1992Jul22.154233.21594@linus.mitre.org> m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) writes:
>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. 

Well, I don't mean to be too directive about it - I want to know what
physicists actually say when you ask them that question. If I can find it,
I will post what my prediction was (posted in another group recently) and
a summary of the net's responses.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt
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From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
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Subject: Re: Blue Sky
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Date: 23 Jul 92 21:12:21 GMT
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