why is the sky blue ?cause i got to find this girl named mandie.
2007-01-28 01:18:52 · 10 answers · asked by Markus B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The sky is blue because it scatters the light passing through it.. Blue has the shortest wavelength so it gets scattered more than the other colors while red is longest wavelengh so it passes more easily .. this is also why sunsets are red.
2007-01-28 01:43:25 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its due to Rayleigh scattering - certainly not because its reflecting the ocean which people sometimes say! Rayleigh scattering involved the scattering of light by particles smaller than the wavelength of light. It has a smaller effect on colours with longer wavelengths and that is why the sky is blue - and also in fact why the sun is yellow - if you added up all the blue tint in the sky and focused it in the area of sun you would get its actual colour of bright white.
Physicists used to say that Rayleigh diffraction was responsible for the reddish tint in sunrise and sunset because the light had to travel through more atmosphere to reach us however this is currently disputed and there is another optical theorem at work called 'Lorenz-Mie theory'. Kind regards.
I don't know if it will mean much to Mandie, though...
*I'm stunned by answers like 'its colorless' or 'because god made it that way' some people really love ignorance.*
2007-01-28 09:48:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's the most common question I've heard in my life! U O me 10 bucks! or Points.
2007-01-28 20:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is this....blue is the slowest moving color in the color spectrum, so as light passes through the atmosphere, the blue color, being slowest, in the only color we can see.
2007-01-28 09:28:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its blue cuz it reflects off the ocean which is blue. good luck finding this mandie person
2007-01-28 09:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by <3 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
??
The sky isn't blue, it is colorless, you just perceive it as blue.
And who the **** is mandie?
2007-01-28 09:22:34 · answer #6 · answered by JC 301186 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it's not blue, its colorless. the distance make it look like blue
2007-01-28 09:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
because it isn't green!
2007-01-28 09:21:55 · answer #8 · answered by Gruntled Employee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because god made it that way
2007-01-28 09:27:34 · answer #9 · answered by Brittany D 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well I hope you find her ... ... ..
2007-01-28 09:23:40 · answer #10 · answered by melark 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋