Please give me a scientific answer. Thank you.
2007-01-03 18:24:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is not, in fact it is quite a semi-parabola as it is never circular.
2007-01-03 18:26:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
surely it does not. It types a circle... 2 infact (there is mostly a reasonably fainter rainbow accompanying the biggest one, which isn't continuously seen). the reason we see it as a semi-circle is only with the aid of fact we (in many situations) see it from the floor, so so, the backside 0.5 looks to vanish decrease than the horizon. in case you're viewing the the rainbow from a extreme vantage factor. Say a Tower or sky-scraper, you will see the full cirlce. i've got considered it and it blew my socks off. Rainbows are somewhat of elegance. 2 little information for you: a million. No 2 everybody is ever finding at precisely a similar rainbow, with the aid of fact in the event that they are status in 2 distinctive positions (despite in the event that they are next to a minimum of one yet another) they are finding on the end result from a reasonably distinctive perspective. as a result, the water droplets that are inflicting the end result for guy.a million are working in any different case for guy. 2. 2. once you're finding at a rainbow, face it head on. The sunlight is often as we talk in the back of you. with out fail... If this weren't the case you does no longer be finding at a rainbow... The sunlight's gentle passes you and effects the water droplets as we talk in front of you... you will continuously be in between the sunlight and the rainbow. in reality rainbow's do no longer likely exist. they are basically a trick of the gentle, this is why you will in no way locate that pot of gold.
2016-11-26 02:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Refraction of light from the from the surface through the moisture in the atmosphere. Since only half of the world is "lit by sunlight" at any given time, the rainbow is a semicircle, reaching from lit horizon to lit horizon.
2007-01-03 18:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by watcherd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be circular if objects such as the ground, trees , hills etc. did not block light, and if there was enough mist (water droplets that defract the light) in the air to cover the whole ring of light. In other words, most rainbows are not circular because something gets in the way, or they are too large that the whole thing is obstructed and not visible. Here is an image of a 360 degree rainbow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:360_rainbow.jpg
and here is a whole page about them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow
2007-01-03 18:33:24 · answer #4 · answered by Fil D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's actually a full circle, but only half of it is normally visible because of the curve of the earth. You can only see a full-circle rainbow if you are flying above a windy rainstorm at noon...
2007-01-03 18:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think, it is the earth that is round, so every thing going straight over our head seems to be round. just as sky is not an arch,but we see it semi-circle because of that.
2007-01-03 18:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong forum Charlie.
2007-01-03 18:28:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the way the light bends to form it. besides, with those pots of gold at either end, why should it be straight. that gold is heavy.
2007-01-03 18:27:33 · answer #8 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the earth is round.
if the atmosphere did not bend, I'm sure it would be straight.
2007-01-03 18:29:12 · answer #9 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And this has to do with religion because..?
2007-01-03 18:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋