2006-10-25 08:58:30 · 15 answers · asked by Flying Gorillaz O 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The chemicals in the atmosphere absorb every color except blue, which is reflected back to earth. Also, the sea reflects the sky, so it is blue too.
2006-10-25 09:13:40 · answer #1 · answered by Phoney baloney answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sky is blue because the ocean is blue. It has something to do with how the sun's light is filtered by our atmosphere and reflects back out. Since the earth is 60 something percent water, that is the dominant shade being reflected back out to space.
2006-10-25 21:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly, the sky is not really blue. It has no color because it is not a solid object. In order for your eyes to recognize color, they must first be triggered by light reflecting off another object and back to the eyes. The sometimes bluish (and often multi-colored) hue you are observing, comes from the earth itself, mostly. Light from the sun (and other miniscule sources) are filtered through the atmosphere and are reflected back out. So basically what you are looking at is the ocean in the sky.
2006-10-25 16:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by benzhowz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Transmitted light from the sun is made up of a spectrum of colors. When the sunlight enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more. Blue is the shortest wavelength so the sky appears to be blue.
It's called 'Rayleigh scattering'.
2006-10-25 16:14:19 · answer #4 · answered by solstice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on your personal definition on the word sky and the word blue. These are different for everyone.
2006-10-25 16:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
really, what I see as blue and what you see as blue could be seen as two totally different colours... we will never know if our colour perception is the same because we are taught that the sky is blue
2006-10-25 16:08:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because your mind interprets the chemical response in your retina from the wavelenght of electro-magnetic radiation scattered from sunlight in the earth's atmosphere as blue.
2006-10-25 16:03:11 · answer #7 · answered by taotemu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I was always told that it was just the rays of light from the sun reflecting off of water molecules in the atmosphere.
I can't attest that that is one hundred percent correct, but that's what my science teacher told me.
2006-10-25 16:19:07 · answer #8 · answered by Nanashi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the spectrum when it comes into the atmosphere...the cut-off is violet. So since we do not perceive violet that well, we see it as blue.
2006-10-25 16:10:00 · answer #9 · answered by jack d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does it make a noise?
I think its just the atmosphere. I have no idea.
2006-10-25 16:07:05 · answer #10 · answered by Sweet! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋