ok here it is. i need to know peoples honest opinions. my girlfriend was told, and she believed, that the sky was blue because of the oceans reflecting in the sky. i told her she was crazy to believe such a thing. she has told me that everyone she knows either believes that, or has heard that. i never have. has anyone out there ever heard that the sky is blue because of the oceans reflecting in the sky. tell me if you heard that or if you believe that. i need to prove my girlfriend is a dolt
2007-01-20 15:09:26 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ha ha. I wouldn't call your girlfriend a dolt. That's a little strong, dont you think? She is almost right, she just has it backwards. The sea is blue because it reflects the sky. The reason the sky is blue is because on a clear normal day, all of the colors of the spectrum are absorbed into the atmosphere except blue, which for some reason is not absorbed thereby reflecting that color to our eyes. Don't tease her too much, she might be RIGHT the next time.
2007-01-20 15:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The water is reflecting the sky not the sky reflecting the water. The sky is blue because of a little thing called rayleigh scattering. Light being broken into it's wavelengths reacting with the various gases in the atmosphere resulting in the sky being blue. When the sun is low on the horizon the light has to travel through more of the atmosphere and also dust resulting in a red sky.
2007-01-20 23:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by Author Unknown 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ask your girlfriend if she want to make an experiment. Take her for a ride out to a desert or a thick forest, go for a short walk and ask her to look straight up into the sky or lie your your backs and gaze into the heavens. Since there is nothing except the brown of the desert or the green of the forest, the sky should be brown or green. However, be very careful to keep the mood light and friendly and then let the subject go.
2007-01-20 23:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by Bonita S 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.
However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue. As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.
2007-01-20 23:13:51 · answer #4 · answered by trusted 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
the sky is blue because of the gas molecules in the air. they reflect the light that has a shorter wavelength (green, blue, purple) while the longer wavelengths (red, yellow, orange) pass through. we see the reflected ones in the air while we do not see the rest, which keep moving onward.
and that's why the sky is blue. it's definitely not the oceans ;)
2007-01-20 23:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by The Candyman 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Actually, you're right.
The sun's rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, where the light is scattered by nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air. The blue wavelength of this light is affected more than the red and green wavelengths, causing the surrounding air to appear blue.
2007-01-20 23:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
thats a load of crap
A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
The white light from the sun is a mixture of all colours of the rainbow. This was demonstrated by Isaac Newton, who used a prism to separate the different colours and so form a spectrum. The colours of light are distinguished by their different wavelengths. The visible part of the spectrum ranges from red light with a wavelength of about 720 nm, to violet with a wavelength of about 380 nm, with orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo between. The three different types of colour receptors in the retina of the human eye respond most strongly to red, green and blue wavelengths, giving us our colour vision.
2007-01-20 23:13:50 · answer #7 · answered by happyman82385 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No it is blue because of the prismatic effect of light off the rounded atmosphere. That is why it is red when it is low in the sky too. I will post a reference if someone doesn't beat me to it.
Added: Candyman is right. I just worded it differently.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html
2007-01-20 23:17:17 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sky is blue due to particle in the air reflecting sun light.Water is blue because it reflects the sky.
Broken down to make simple.<><
2007-01-20 23:15:30 · answer #9 · answered by funnana 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
ive never heard that in my life!!! i dont think its fact at all....tell her maybe its because the oceans are blue and they reflect their color to the sky!!
2007-01-20 23:14:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋