Is the sky TRULY blue?

Question

Well, i'd like to disagree on that theory......and i love you more!

Yay! My sweetheart is so smart!

Answer 1

no there is no sky.... LOVE YOU!!!

Ummm... the sky is not a reflection of the water....Water has no color... The oceans reflect off the sky... hence thwm being blue... the molecules in the atmosphere catch and reflect some solor rays... giving it a blue apperance...at dawn sky is red ish, night blackish-blue... So over all, the "sky" is clear...like a window or a two way mirror... just reflecting the sun... And I still love you babe!

Answer 2

The color of the sky is a result of diffuse sky radiation. On a sunny day the Earth sky usually looks as a blue gradient — dark in the zenith, light near the horizon (due to Rayleigh scattering). It turns orange and red during sunrise and sunset, and becomes black at night.

Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh) is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. It occurs when light travels in transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in gases. Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere is the main reason light from the sky is blue.

The amount of Rayleigh scattering that occurs to a beam of light is dependent upon the size of the particles and the wavelength of the light; in particular, the scattering coefficient, and hence the intensity of the scattered light, varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength, a relation known as the Rayleigh law.

Answer 3

A question for those who think the sky is blue because it reflects the color of the ocean - why is the sky blue over Kansas?

(Like many above have said, the sky is blue because of the scattering of sunlight.)

Answer 4

Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh) is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. It occurs when light travels in transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in gases. Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere is the main reason light from the sky is blue.

Answer 5

Blue light is (usually) the most common frequency of the light spectrum that will penetrate the earths dense atmosphere. The sun gives off a broad spectrum of visible and non-visible light. Blue passes through our atmosphere most efficiently.

Answer 6

Since the sky appears blue to human eyes, my answer is: yes, the sky is truly blue.

If you would ask a bee, for instance, it would probably give a different answer. Maybe the bee would consider the sky to be a special shade of violet? (The ultraviolet light from the sun, which we cannot see, is visible to bees since their eyes have a different construction.)

Answer 7

Yeah, Rayleigh scattering... swapan42k got it.

It's how light appears after passing through our atmosphere, but not that our atmosphere is made of particles that are blue by themselves. So our atmosphere is not blue.

But I'd say the sky, as we see it and as to what the word refers to, is blue.

Answer 8

i also disagree on that theory bcoz first of all there is no sky, it is just illusion which is created by ozone, sunlight reflects and main thing is there are many colours like VIBRGYO ( violet, red, green, orange, yellow, purple, blue and so more) all these colour looks like in one colour(as blue).

Answer 9

No, blue is just the colour that the atoms in the air spread when sunlight hits them

Answer 10

true there is no sky what we have is an illusion created by the ozone, light reflects off the sea and onto the ozone creating a blue reflection...