Timeline for Why don't we see the violet in the rainbow as blue?
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | probably_someone | @MihaiDanila Yes, the scattered light from the atmosphere is mostly blue. The eye doesn't "prefer" anything; in one case, the violet light is there (because it's part of the direct sunlight that is refracted through water droplets without being absorbed), and in one case, it isn't (because scattered light from the sky is not direct sunlight, since it has to go through an absorption/scattering process). | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 4:37 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | This indeed doesn't answer her question. It's useful, but not in this context. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 4:16 | comment | added | Mihai Danila | Are you saying that the atmosphere scatters blue preferentially? If not, this doesn't answer my question, because irrespective of process I don't understand why the eye prefers one color over the other in one case but not in the other. What do you think of Rob Jeffries's answer below, though? Does that explain the difference? | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 19:24 | history | answered | probably_someone | CC BY-SA 4.0 |