Why is the sky blue?

Question

K so I know that lots of people ask it and bla bla bla, but this question is different... WHY does everyone fall for that Rayleigh bs? There's dust everywhere and light doesn't hit it and freak out, shining blue on everything! So WHY is the sky really blue? Does it have anything to do with Uberblutomiumide?

Ok ok ok! Rayleigh or whatever is B.S. and here is why! First! There is dust everywhere, and the entire thing to the scattering stuff is that the dust "scatters" light. But light doesn't scatter. It's reflected, refracted, or absorbed. So ya, no! The oceans are blue because both hydrogen and oxygen are blue. The sky is not purple possibly because we are all a little bit color blind, but that doesn't explain why the sky is blue. GOD created everything, ok, fine, but He created everything using laws that He Himself created. He isn't going to break those laws just so the sky is blue for no reason. Uberblutoniumide isn't made up, but if you really want to know about it, you'll just have to ask me about it.

Do you people get it? I'm not dumb! I know what I'm talking about, or at least I'm really good at sounding like it. R-whoever was too good at knowing only a little and sounding like he knew what he was talking about. I've spent over twelve hours researching this question and haven't come up with an answer that makes any more sense than Uberblutoniumide. And if anyone knows what it is, will you please explain where exactly it came from?

Do you people get it? I'm not dumb! I know what I'm talking about, or at least I'm really good at sounding like it. R-whoever was too good at knowing only a little and sounding like he knew what he was talking about. I've spent over twelve hours researching this question and haven't come up with an answer that makes any more sense than Uberblutoniumide. And if anyone knows what it is, will you please explain where exactly it came from?

Uberblutoniumide isn't made up!

Answer 1

LOL!! Yay! Someone who knows about Uberblutoniumide! It's great! K, so heres the need to know about Uberblutoniumide, up until very very recently it has been completely undetectable by us. I don't know exactly what it is, details are really sketchy because it's such a new discovery, but basically, as far as I understand, it's like an element like hydrogen or argon or oxygen. It's in a constant solid state, kind of like clouds. You know, how they are like a mass of tiny little ice crystals suspended in the sky. Ya, Uberblutoniumide is so high up in the atmosphere that it's like forever frozen solid. It formed a very very VERY thin layer at the very tippy top of the earths atmosphere. That's why one minute there's a blue sky, and the next second it's black. Uberblutoniumide is so blue however, that even the small teeny tiny layer is visible from the ground.

People believe Rayleigh because it's easily provable. The one experiment that I've seen is the milk one. You fill a tube full of water and dilude it with powdered milk. Then if you shine a flashlight on it and look at it from the side, you'll see one color, and if you look at it from the end you see another color. It's supposed to show why the sky is blue and sunsets are red. The biggest qualms I've heard for this is that water vapor is supposedly supposed to "freak out" the light enough on it's own. And I don't know about you, but I've never heard of any powdered milk hanging out in the atmosphere waiting for light to hit it.

People believe Rayleigh because he was smart and knew what he was talking about. He was an influential man and he had friends in high places. If it weren't Rayleigh there would be some other schlub's name being bashed by you.

Don't worry, there was plenty of proof that the world was flat, there's enough mathematical evidence that even today people can be convinced of it.

The truth is Uberblutoniumide was made up to prove how easy it is to come up with a "theory" and how easy it is to sway the masses using limited facts. I used it in a class project once, and some kids came up and asked me if it was really real or not, because it made so much sense. I tend to agree, even though I KNOW it's made up, I almost think it's possible.

The sky is blue because parents needed to have their kids as a question that they wouldn't blush at no matter how many times they were asked or where. You see, if there were a simple answer for the question, more kids would ask "Where do babies come from?" and more parents would be horrified to bring their kids out in public.

In all reality, the sky is only blue because when man was first creating their spoken language, they decided that B-L-U and E put together made a sound fitting to what they saw when they looked at blue things. If they had decided that any other combination fit better, the sky would not be blue.

I hope this answers your questions, and to all those who gave you answers that were the least bit condescending in tone, just think - they are the ones that were given an answer and let it end there. You were given an answer, the SAME answer over and over again and you kept at it, you didn't let that end your quest for the truth. Good job. I hope you find what you're looking for.

Answer 2

OK Princess, listen up

Oxygen is not blue - it is a colorless gas

Hydrogen is not blue - it is a colorless gas

Water is not blue - it is a colorless liquid (and solid if it comes to that)

The reason that both the sky and the ocean appear blue is that blue light is scattered (or refracted or reflected, I don't care which words you use) off of surfaces in the air or the water.

Yes, air has a surface - the surface of atoms and molecules and even dust (although the dust is a minor bit).

The reason that you see blue is that it has the lowest wavelength - and is, consequently, scattered least.

In case you think that atoms can't scatter light, I'll remind you of the Rutherford scattering experiments - the nuclei of atoms does the trick quite nicely.

So, we see blue because of the 1/lambaE4 relationship in scattering, refracting or reflecting. Blue light gets through - everything else gets gets bent out of the way (except at sunset)

Rayleigh has it right and chemists and physicists rely on his equation to measure all kinds of things - including pollution levels in the atmosphere.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but, as Mark Twain once said, "It ain't what we don't know that hurts us, it's what we do know that isn't so."

Answer 3

the blue coloration of the sky is by technique of Rayleigh scattering. As easy strikes for the period of the ambience, lots of the longer wavelengths bypass rapidly with the aid of. Little of the purple, orange and yellow easy is bothered with the aid of the air. in spite of the indisputable fact that, most of the shorter wavelength easy is absorbed with the aid of the gasoline molecules. The absorbed blue easy is then radiated in distinctive instructions. It gets scattered all over the sky. Whichever path you look, a number of this scattered blue easy reaches you. considering the fact which you notice the blue easy from everywhere overhead, the sky seems blue.

Answer 4

The light reaching the earth from the sun full-spectrum. When it hits the atmosphere it is absorbed by the elements and compounds that exist in the atmosphere. Turns out that the stuff that makes up "air" is mostly nitrogen (about 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts of other gases, and a variable amount (average around 1%) of water vapor). This combination of gasses seem to absorb all but the blue spectrum.

Not all the visible spectrum is absorbed by the gasses; what gets through is sufficient to give us a balanced spectrum at the surface (more or less).

Answer 5

Uberblutomiumide is gibberish.

Rayleigh scattering is the reason the sky is blue. No amount of complaining will change this fact. You asked a question, and it was answered. If you don't like the answer, go derive another explanation from first principles, like Rayleigh did.

Answer 6

you just made that last thing up didn't you???


but on another note. yes, there's dust everywhere but the atmosphere is really, really far. so it gives light a (relatively) long, long time to "freak out". and besides, light does freak out. what about rainbows?

and how do you explain the fact that you can see? in colors? when light (as an electromagnetic wave) hits a surface, part of that light is absorbed by that and part of it is returned. and so, depending on the frequence, you are able to see colors. wich explains why you can't see in the dark.

and, the sky isn't blue, since at night, you can see the stars.

Answer 7

the sky is really purplue, but the reflection of the oceans make it blue :) i did a science fair project on it along time ago.

Answer 8

The sky is not blue. Take a look again.

Answer 9

ill answer that when you tell me why the grass is green why dogs bark and cats meow and not the opposite and why is anything the way it is,.......the only answer that comes to my mind sweetie is because god made it that way. :) neways have a good night ..or day whatever it is there

Answer 10

the sky is blue because.... the atmoshpere reflects most colors while blue is reflected inwards towords us..... this is why the ocean is blue because it reflects thelight from the sun.... if not for the ligh water is clear....