My last post was why I thought the sky was blue. Doing some research, I found out I was way off! With my dad's Einstein brain power, he helped me understand what all this meant.
As we know, the atmosphere reflects light. This keeps us from burning to death (even though it already seems like it in the summer). The light from the sun shines down. It scatters light just like everything else does. The only color we see is blue because the other ones are reflected. Take for example, look at anything around you: a chair, a book, even your cat. The colors are being reflected so we only see the blue chair, the red book, or the black cat. All the other colors are gone. It's pretty cool when you think about it.
We did several experiments to help us better understand this theory. We used mirrors to show how distance does affect the size things appear. A person next to you seems way bigger than a person 4 meters away. Maybe the two people are the same height. They appear to be different. We looked through a little box at a light and we say a mini rainbow. According to the color light we looked at, the rainbow appeared different.
Back to the sky, I originally thought that it was blue because it was reflecting off oceans. I saw that in a movie once, but never bothered to do any further research. Now it seems pretty cool.
As we know, the atmosphere reflects light. This keeps us from burning to death (even though it already seems like it in the summer). The light from the sun shines down. It scatters light just like everything else does. The only color we see is blue because the other ones are reflected. Take for example, look at anything around you: a chair, a book, even your cat. The colors are being reflected so we only see the blue chair, the red book, or the black cat. All the other colors are gone. It's pretty cool when you think about it.
We did several experiments to help us better understand this theory. We used mirrors to show how distance does affect the size things appear. A person next to you seems way bigger than a person 4 meters away. Maybe the two people are the same height. They appear to be different. We looked through a little box at a light and we say a mini rainbow. According to the color light we looked at, the rainbow appeared different.
Back to the sky, I originally thought that it was blue because it was reflecting off oceans. I saw that in a movie once, but never bothered to do any further research. Now it seems pretty cool.
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