Answer #1: No, it is not possible to get to the end of a rainbow. A rainbow is actually a full circle of color in the sky. But, from our perspective on Earth, we only see the top half and the two ends of the arch only appear to touch the ground.
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Here is a twist to the answer that will surprise you. The answer is yes AND no. You cannot get to the end of the rainbow that you are looking at. But in fact you might BE at the end of the rainbow (at least the apparent end of it) that someone else is looking at a mile or two away. If that person moved to where you are, he would see the rainbow that you see, and not the one he saw at his former location. The rainbow is NOT one single event happening at one specific location. The atmosphere is acting like a huge prism, and the appearance of 'the' rainbow depends as much on your location as it does on the location of the sun and the right amount of moisture in the air.
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Answer #2: Yes, it is possible to get to the end of a rainbow. By "the end of the rainbow", I mean a specific location on the ground where the arc of a rainbow touches down. Ironically enough, there is even something there that resembled a "pot of gold".
There may or may not be a mechanistic explanation congruent with our cultural tradition of physics that is adequate for this, but nonetheless, it is real, and the world doesn't really care what we think is possible and is not possible.
I have been to the end of a rainbow, in Europe as a military helicopter pilot, and while at the end of the rainbow I observed the phenomenon carefully. The factual nature of what myself and other professionals witnessed at the end of that rainbow has always provided me with some liberating laughter when I read the technical explanations written with such certainty by many. Take everything we scientists say with a grain or two of salt.
A rainbow forms when there is water in the air and the sun reflects off of this water.
When the sun shines through some rain the light from the sun is broken up into it's spectrographic colors. Normal light is invisible to us but we see the effects as light allows us to see things. The things we all see are always some color, yes black and white are colors. Why? Because light is made up of every color you can think of. When you see a red car that is because the car's paint absorbs all of the light EXCEPT the red which is reflected back to you eyes. So all the colors we see in life are just reflections of those colors while all the other colors are being absorbed by the object we are viewing. So when the sunlight shines through the rain the rain acts like a prism and filters or breaks the light into it's various individual colors that we see. Generally we see it as Roy G. Biv. or Red Orange Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Roy G. Biv is a good way to remember the colors that one sees. We call the colors the are visible from a rainbow a spectrum of colors.
Rainbows do not have a smell as they are a natural phenomenon caused by the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets. The colors we see in a rainbow are a result of the way light is bent and separated by the water droplets in the air.
What do the colors of a rainbow mean?
Whilst everybody agrees on the colours of the rainbow in their order of Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet, there, is no overall agreement on what they signify, it varies with the Spirtual School of Thought. There is even less agreement on what they mean when perceived in an Aura of a person.
In a general way, they tend to be linked to the colours of the Chakras in the 7 Chakra system(there are others). Conceptually, they are in ascending order of spirituallity, with red being the physical matter and the mid point is green. A school of thought looks on them as being folded about this mid point forming the duality, so the duality of red would be violet, orange with indigo and yellow with blue.
In the chakra system, which is linked to the centres of energy in the body, Red would represent the physical body, especially the skeleton. Orange relates to the numbril, and thus the creative energies, particularly the sex drive. Yellow would be the solar plexus, the seat of the ego. Green, being the heart, often considered in two parts, one being love as it is generally understood, and the other higher part being altruistic love.
Blue is for the throat and is linked to the communication of thought and the mental process, indigo is for the third eye, linked to the pineal gland, which, if it is not much solicited, often becomes calcified in most people by the age of 50, and violet to wisdom, a sign of at least some enlightement.
How often does error in science occur?
Margin of error in science is where they are doing statics based on a sample known as a representative subset. Samples are picked based on the best information given. But since there is always a chance that not all information or details have been given in selecting the sample it makes it impossible to retrieve a 'true' representative subset. So margin of error in science is how well the scientist selected a sample that will allow them to predict what will happen with what they are studying.
What color is not in the rainbow?
Rainbow colors are: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet (ROYGBIV). As a 'rainbow' is refracted light it is something that is hard to study, although it can be reproduced to a point. I would say that all colors, basically, are there. It simply depends on where you are when you can see it. Keep in mind that black, being the absence of light/color is not included in that group. black
Is the colour pink in the rainbow?
Yes, pink is definitely a color in the rainbow. The mixture from the clouds along with the red in the rainbow would form the shade, or color, pink. The colors that appear in the rainbow are VIBGYOR i.e Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red ! but the colors sometimes are not distinctly seen so it appears to be having shade of the colors. So pink can be sometimes seen near red.
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yes it is in the rainbow sing the song.
yes it is because of the cloud formation in the skye
The termrefraction means what in terms rainbows?
Water droplets refract different wavelengths of visible light differently. Blue wavelengths are less "bent" than red wavelengths, so the blue portion of the rainbow is towards the inside edge of the rainbow.
The colors of the rainbow are all present in sunlight, but mixed together. As sunlight passes through small water droplets in foggy air, the water droplets act as lenses which alter the direction of the light, and which affect different colors to different degrees, thereby breaking up the white light into a spectrum.
What colors are in the rainbow?
The colors in the Rainbow are...
An easy way tho remember this is, the first letter in each color's name spells out ROY-G-BIV.
Why do rainbows move when you walk towards them?
Rainbows appear to move when you walk towards them because the angle at which you see the light reflecting off the raindrops changes as you move. This causes the rainbow to shift its position relative to your location, giving the illusion of movement.
The first recorded theory about the rainbow phenomenon was formulated by Noah, who interpreted it as a sign of God's acceptance of his offering. The rainbow can be represented mathematically in terms of Snell's law (Willebrord Snellius) and the Fresnel boundary equations.
How do you organize stimuli in order to perceive form constancy depth and color?
The brain organizes stimuli through processes such as pattern recognition, depth perception cues, and color vision. Form constancy is maintained by recognizing objects despite changes in size or orientation. Depth perception is achieved through visual cues like relative size and overlapping objects. Color perception is based on the wavelength of light stimulating specialized receptors in the retina.
Every color that is perceptible by the human optical system is in the rainbow.
Each wavelength within the visible band is a different 'color', whether or not
the eyes of one individual or another can tell the difference between them.
The spectrum of wavelengths is continuous. So technically, there are an infinite
number of different wavelengths, and no limit to the number of colors, whether
or not they all have names.
How do soap bubbles produce rainbows?
Let me start off by saying that different colors of light refract at slightly different angles when they pass through two media. In this case, the media are bubbles and air around the bubbles. When white light(composed of the seven colors of the rainbow) passes through a bubble, the colors are split because of this property. As a result, you see a rainbow.
Why there is a rainbow after the rain?
A rainbow forms when sunlight is refracted, or bent, and reflected inside raindrops, splitting the light into its various colors. The different colors then appear as a circular arc in the sky as they are separated.
Why are there seven colours in a rainbow?
Because "color" is an interaction between the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and the light sensitive parts of our eyes.
Our eyes have evolved 4 different receptors--one each for Red, Green and Blue and another for violet.
A rainbow actually contains millions of colors, but we have evolved to categorize most of the wavelengths in the visible spectrum as one of the primary colors and their combinations.
Where does the name for a rainbow come from?
It is a colorful bow made from sunlight in the moisture in the air before, during or after a rain. New Answer. It is and arch but the word arch did not fit as a whole word with rain, so the word bow was used instead of arch, Rainarch does not fit well, so rainbow was used instead. A rainbow is an arch of the true colours of light that is created when Its Rains. An Arch is created with the Rain and light. Original definition based from Genesis 9: Comes from the Hebrew "bow", the same word for a bow that shoots arrows. The idea was that God promised not to flood the earth ever again because of the evil which had "flooded the earth." He makes a covenant with Noah as a promise that he still cares for all creation and that he figuratively "hangs up his bow", a weapon of war and transformed it into a symbol of grace. The flood had served its purpose as a token of judgment on evil for all of history, and it gave the human race a "new start."
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.
You can remember it by thinking of the poem-
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
What does refraction means in terms of rainbows?
It is a rule that violet light bend that most and red color bend least way. Most of the light passes through the rain drop. Because of bending of colors in different ways and on different angle each color that emerges from raindrop produce a spectrum of colors. As only single color from each drop reaches to observer, so there are number of raindrops from which each rain drop reflect the light back to an observer at slightly different angle, as to produce different primary colors of rainbow. Secondary rainbow appears above the primary rainbow. When two colors reflection occur inside a raindrop at such angle that it results into secondary rainbow. When weaker light that start emerging to produce a dimmer rainbow effect. Refraction happens as light enters and leaves a prism. Red light is refracted the least and violet light is refracted the most. This causes the different colours in the light to spread out to form a spectrum. Separating the colours like this is called dispersion. We say that the light has been dispersed.
Rainbows are formed when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed in water droplets in the atmosphere. This causes the light to separate into its various colors, creating the beautiful arc of colors that we see in the sky.
What is a rainbow made out of?
Its made when the suns light reflects the particles in rain
the light from the sun is white light. white light is made up of many colors. when the light hits a raindrop the colors refract and reflect and are shown as the colors of the specrum. - animalgirl11