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Here's What It Would Look Like To Walk Through A Rainbow

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

Senior Staff Writer & Space Correspondent

Alfredo (he/him) has a PhD in Astrophysics on galaxy evolution and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces.

Senior Staff Writer & Space Correspondent

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Rainbows are not just pretty streaks in the sky after a rainy day. They are also a reminder of a fundamental physical truth: white light is a lie.

Water droplets, jagged metal, glass, and prisms can reveal how the light from the Sun is a combination of different wavelengths, which we interpret as the different colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

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Although separated, the colors don’t end abruptly but smoothly change from one to the other. The video below shows precisely this effect and it is super cool! 

 

 


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