i ahve been told it is the reflection from the sea etc but is that true?
2006-09-07 05:36:24 · 12 answers · asked by Summer Rain 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
meant to say "have" oops.
2006-09-07 05:42:06 · update #1
when it came up with related questions, there were none asking this MUHUEHUE, and i am not going to spend ages searching thru thousands of questions. you could see what i was asking without clicking on my question, if it annoys you so much, just ignore it!!! grow up, i am only trying to learn.
2006-09-07 05:46:20 · update #2
The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering of the shorter visible wavelengths (of electromagnetic radiation) by gases in the atmosphere.
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html
2006-09-07 05:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by tbom_01 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No!
The answer involves some tricky physics and probably isn't as interesting as you might like, but here it goes:
First, accept that light is both a wave and a particle. It's called wave-particle duality, and it doesn't make much sense, but it's way too hard for me to explain right now. So just try to keep with me.
Light and heat are both waves of energy. Those waves can be close together or far apart. The light that comes from the sun is a mixture of all colors, from red (longest wavelength) to blue (shortest wavelength). Because blue has the smallest wavelength, that sort of light will have the smallest photons (light particles - see? sorry) and be scattered best by the smallest particles it meets in the air - namely, oxygen and nitrogen. And since our air is 99% oxygen and nitrogen, that's why the sky is blue. For the record, blue light is scattered about ten times more than red light.
Didn't make much sense? Yeah, it kind of sucks. But that's the way our universe actually works. Einstein was the one who figured out most of that light scattering stuff.
2006-09-07 12:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by David M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sky appears us blue coz when light rays come from sun the blue light deflects the most i.e. spreads the most.
It's nothing like reflection from sea and don't beleive that fact.
Sea can't reflect only blue light but if it reflects it does so for many colours. Thus it is not true.
2006-09-07 12:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Gogs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
believe none of the above plz
it is due to the fact that the rays coming from the sun are white lights (consisting of the whole of the spectrum of rays)
when the other light rays than the violet and the like in VIBGYOR get dispersed. hence,mostly its the blue light tht reaches our eyes and hence we see the skies blue
2006-09-07 17:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by catty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was told the same thing...the reflection from the sun off the water.
2006-09-07 12:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by drunken_monkey1988 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is from the Hydrogen in our atmosphere,the same Hydrogen that makes water blue.Hydrogen is basically 50% of the compound sctructure of water,H2o 2 parts Hydrogen.1 part oxygen.
2006-09-07 13:57:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No what you have been told isnt true.
At higher grade you will study that due to rayleigh scattring of light the sky looks blue
2006-09-07 13:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by Rachit 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the clouds difuse blue light... making the sky blue
2006-09-07 12:39:06 · answer #8 · answered by Brian D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it has something to do with light hitting atmospheric gasses.
2006-09-07 12:43:15 · answer #9 · answered by nobellykelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it's not true it has to do with light refracting and the way our eyes take in light.
2006-09-07 12:42:22 · answer #10 · answered by Crazymom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋