Timeline for Can you actually stand inside a rainbow? I see people claiming you can
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| Jul 1, 2022 at 19:58 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | re: the adult, child and dog all can see a rainbow - Well maybe not the dog. It's not only facing the wrong direction, but also dogs are mostly color-blind. I don't expect they get much out of seeing rainbows... | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 10:19 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | Oh, and watching one of the linked videos, "Drove Through the End of a Double Rainbow", that's exactly what happens: The car enters an area of intense rain while still being in sunlight, and the rainbow appears in front of very close objects (first a close hill, then even the shoulder, other cars and street signs). | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 10:13 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | While I like the last diagram a lot it is not entirely complete. If it rains heavily where you are, you have parts of the rainbow coming from water droplets very close to you. This situation makes the rainbow appear in front of even close objects. Of course it's never directly above you: The rays always come from the proper refractive angle. But you can have the feeling of being eerily close. The picture with the children is actually a good example: The same would happen with natural rain of sufficient intensity. The "end of the rainbow", where it meets the ground, can appear very close. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 9:33 | comment | added | Pod | But from the camera's perspective, one of those children could have stood "inside" the rainbow whilst the other continued to spray. So they might not have been stood inside their rainbow, but they were stood in someone's! | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 7:45 | history | edited | Farcher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2022 at 23:17 | history | answered | Farcher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |