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Article #1464Re: Blue Sky
From: Andrew Mullhaupt
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:12
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!kepler1!andrew From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Blue Sky Message-ID: <1111@kepler1.rentec.com> Date: 23 Jul 92 21:12:21 GMT References: <1099@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul22.154233.21594@linus.mitre.org> Distribution: na Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY. Lines: 16