Can anybody answer the following? Why is there sometimes a colourful mark on the floor when it rains resembling a fallen rainbow? All scientific answers and answers from the imagination welcome!
2006-08-16 01:39:40 · 9 answers · asked by little pink dynamite 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
it's oil or petrol, but from now on, for me it will always be a fallen rainbow, I love that idea!
2006-08-16 04:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason you get a rainbow in the sky when it rains - under certain conditions the water acts like a prism (or in the case of rainbow in the sky when raining, each droplet of water acts like a prism), and refracts the white light from the sun, causing it to split into each colour of the spectrum.
Essentially each different colour is electromagnetic waves travelling at a different frequency to another colour.
White light is made up of all the frequencies of the spectrum. When it passes through a prism, those different frequencies are "split" into slightly different directions, hence you see them separately.
Although I have to say, I have never seen the colourful mark of which you speak.
2006-08-16 01:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by gsp100677 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean when some petrol has leaked into a puddle, you get a rainbow effect in the puddle.
Or do you actually mean there is a rainbow mark on the floor?
2006-08-16 01:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by Iain T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rainbows,, are created, when faries play in the clouds
The faries steps cause the rain to fall.
The mark you have seen, is on the odd occasion when a fairy falls.
What you are seeing is technically called a fairy splat
If you taste the splat, or dink enough of it you will get special fairy powers
Also having a cigarett directly afterward, will help you...
2006-08-16 01:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by yeah well 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually oil separating from water.
2006-08-16 01:45:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just petrol or oil on the road, when it mixes with water I think - but it still looks pretty doesn't it!
2006-08-16 01:46:29 · answer #6 · answered by snowymountains123 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its car paint fallen on the road
2006-08-16 02:43:23 · answer #7 · answered by bloodhound 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is a reflection
2006-08-16 01:45:55 · answer #8 · answered by Neil G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think its oil.
2006-08-16 01:45:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋