2007-11-26 11:10:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
billions of water droplets are little prisms that refract the suns light to show the full spectrum of light on any solid area nearby.
So, you have the sun behind you shining on the droplets in front of you.
The droplets split the light into billions of little prisms of rainbows.
The further away you see it showing, it shows up bigger.
I could explain this in about 6 hours and with about 400 pages of diagrams.
2007-11-26 11:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by tennacious_c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunlight and rain drops. The sun, the drops and the observer should be at particular position to view the rainbow;ie, the refracted and reflected sunlight from the rain drops should subtend a particular angle at the observer's eye.
2007-11-26 22:48:19 · answer #2 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The droplets/moisture left over by the rain bends the light (like a prism) and separates it into different colours.
2007-11-26 19:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the deflection of light through water droplets, as a prismatic effect, see Pink Floyd album cover.
2007-11-26 22:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by ab dominance 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋