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Its impossible to touch a rainbow so does it really exsist? If so, where? In the sky? In the rain droplets? In the mind?

Rainbows are just the sun that is shining through raindrops. rainbows are caused by dispersion of sunlight as it is refracted by (approximately spherical) raindrops. which is what we see as a rainbow.

NO...I tried...

The rainbow is in your eyes.

There's a river by my house that currently has some decent rainbows in it.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
The rainbow is in your eyes. That explains my disorder then.....Or LSD.

When I lived in Denver we always always had double rainbows....you never could very close to them though...they'd disappear.

Originally posted by Biscuit
Its impossible to touch a rainbow so does it really exsist? If so, where? In the sky? In the rain droplets? In the mind?

are you seriously asking a question cause i can give you the proper answer if you'd like

although it involves a bit of the physics of light

Originally posted by jaden101
are you seriously asking a question cause i can give you the proper answer if you'd like

although it involves a bit of the physics of light


Indeed Newton must be doing this Wtf

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
Indeed Newton must be doing this Wtf

i wonder what he would've said if someone told him "its all in your mind isaac"

Originally posted by Biscuit
Its impossible to touch a rainbow so does it really exsist? If so, where? In the sky? In the rain droplets? In the mind? just over the glen by the purple mountains and the blue waterfall infested by faeries and sprites...and if you're lucky, there might me a pot o' gold or frosted lucky charms.

Originally posted by jaden101
i wonder what he would've said if someone told him "its all in your mind isaac"

I suspect considering he was well known for his rages, it might well be unprintable perhaps he might say "Tosser"

A rainbow exists not just in the eyes, but in the heart, mind and soul of the beholder ("Fairy tales can come true" / "They can happen to you" / If you're young at heart..."

I was starting to like that until you started into the "Fairy tales can come true"..

The rainbow is the result of refraction of the sunlight that passes through the raindrops or sometimes just the vapor of water in the air.
Different colors are refracted differently so colors are seen in different positions in the rainbow, the red is the less refracted, and violet is the most refracted.

The rainbow cannot be located in a position of the space, it will change depending on the perspective you see it, so if you change your position the rainbow could change its position too, or even vanish, it is not like a solid object which its image is always in the same place independently on the perspective.

so a rainbow ent actually anything then, just an illusion. it doesnt actually exist anywhere in the world. physics cant explain where they are. Its like a reflection...not actually anywhere...

Originally posted by Biscuit
so a rainbow ent actually anything then, just an illusion. it doesnt actually exist anywhere in the world. physics cant explain where they are. Its like a reflection...not actually anywhere...

It does exist in the place you can see it, as an effect of the light.

Originally posted by jaden101
(...) it involves a bit of the physics of light

Commonly Called "optics"

Wow...we here at KMC, TRUELY, have nothing to talk about.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Wow...we here at KMC, TRUELY, have nothing to talk about.

Painfully evident lately.