Timeline for Why don't we see the violet in the rainbow as blue?
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 15:08 | vote | accept | Mihai Danila | ||
| Jan 7, 2020 at 7:52 | comment | added | ProfRob | @MihaiDanila that is my answer. However, it may also be relevant that the light from a rainbow is "formed" relatively close to you and so there is no chance for that light to scatter. The mean free path of violet light is a few km at sea level.p | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 4:13 | comment | added | Mihai Danila | It's beginning to make sense. So even though the atmosphere prefers to scatter violet over blue, enough blue is scattered together with the violet that, together with the eye's preference for blue over violet and with the preference of the Sun to send more blue in the first place, the eye happens to perceive blue. Nothing of the kind with the rainbow light, where the violet band is strong enough to overpower any preference by the eye to perceive blue. Is that it? | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 19:25 | history | answered | ProfRob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |