How are rainbows formed. I know it’s about refraction from water droplets, but shouldn’t you see many tiny rainbows instead of one big one.
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Imagine the sky is a Giant LCD display.
Each water droplet is a pixel on the display. Its transparent when light passes straight thru it.
But if the light passes thru at an angle, it gets a colour/hue when you view it.
The droplets are stationary, but your perspective is different with respect to different droplets. Droplets at a certain area give off a certain color, to you. Droplets in another area, another color.
You can also see this effect when you view your LCD display at extreme angles. I think the phenomenon is called colorshift.
Good question, no answers. Water is at a “farther angle”…water droplets near each other all “send the same color”…nonsense. I have no doubt that people actually understand the physics, but I’m not sure that they understood the question, and certainly no one answered it.
The pokémon called Ho-Oh has wings that are prismatic, causing it to trail a rainbow behind it. It is said that when it flies its huge wings create bright, colorful rainbows.
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