Double Rainbow

[Vince]

Despite the doorstep sales people, the tree cutters, the walkers of aggressive dogs and the sinister clowns, East Dulwich in my head always looks like this.

http://i55.tinypic.com/333vmzo.jpg

And it sounds like this:

[Dorothy]

It was just luvverly, wasn't it?

[Bony Fido]

From my kitchen window the "Rainbow's End" falls very close to the Crystal Palace Tavern!:)-D

[Peckhampam]

It looked lovely over Ondine Road but I can't work out how to insert or attach an image. What is the URL and where do I find it. And why I can't I find a paper clip symbol for attaching an image?

[katie1997]

The double rainbow yesterday was lovely :D

[legalbeagle]

Wasn't it just beautiful? I stopped my car in the middle of the road to look and take a very similar photo, and not one person beeped me to move on.......all looking up at the sky.....don't you just LOVE London when that happens?

[Peckhampam]

I knew it was easy to attach but still can't work out how to insert...Ondine Road take a bow....rain bow

[DulwichFox]

Rainbows do not actually exist.

They are an Optical Illusion caused by a Prismatic effect of the sunlight on raindrops.

Rainbows viewed from High Altitude Aircraft can be seen as complete Circles.

So sadly they do not have Ends and hence no 'Pot of Gold' :(

Nice Pics though. ;-)

[Keef]

From my kitchen window the "Rainbow's End" falls very close to the Crystal Palace Tavern!

Yep, I've lost many a pot of gold in that place!

[legalbeagle]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Rainbows do not actually exist.

>

> They are an Optical Illusion caused by a Prismatic

> effect of the sunlight on raindrops.

>

> Rainbows viewed from High Altitude Aircraft can be

> seen as complete Circles.

>

> So sadly they do not have Ends and hence no 'Pot

> of Gold' :(

>

> Nice Pics though. ;-)

Hey thanks for that DulwichFox - could you make sure you pop round on xmas eve and give my kids the hard facts about Mr Claus?

;-)

[Sue]

Lol, Keef and legalbeagle.

We saw the double rainbow from the front of a bus on the way to Deptford, and at one point the end of the main bow appeared to be over Canary Wharf.

Was amazing how it got brighter and brighter.

I love rainbows :) Would like to have seen it over East Dulwich, so thanks for the pix!

[DulwichFox]

legalbeagle Wrote:

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> Hey thanks for that DulwichFox - could you make

> sure you pop round on xmas eve and give my kids

> the hard facts about Mr Claus?

>

> ;-)

No Problem.

Should I explain about Tooth Fairies as well. ;-)

Trouble is, Who does eat the Mince Pie and drink the Sherry. ?

Where does the Sixpence under the pillow come from. ?

[lordshiplass]

Thanks for sharing your rainbow pics -totally beautiful yesterday!

Lovely thread. x

[legalbeagle]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Should I explain about Tooth Fairies as well. ;-)

>

What? there's no tooth fairy either?

fcuking hell this is turning into a bad day.......

[lenga01]

:)) Was it this exciting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6DyLTEbOAw

[Ant]

>Where does the Sixpence under the pillow come from. ?

Very good question - where do you get a sixpence these days? Fairly sure the tooth fairy went decimal before I was even born...

[BrandNewGuy]

lenga01 Wrote:

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> :)) Was it this exciting?

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6DyLTEbOAw

Almost -

a young East Dulwicher's reaction to it (from next to the garden centre on Grove Vale).

:-)))

[citizenED]

I was lucky enough to see a double rainbow from Greenwich Park yesterday. Stunning.

Keef, didn't you mean that you've "invested " many a pot of gold in that place.

[dulwichflower]

Absolutely was beautiful. Never seen a double rainbow before.

[Peckhampam]

I did think the rainbow was beautiful, hence my earlier posting. However I don't think doubble or even triple rainbows are that unusual-if you look carefully they are often there. However I think this one was brighter than usual, perhaps because the quality of the light and the placing of the dark clouds

[Jeremy]

DulwichFox, I would argue that a rainbow is not an illusion. The separation of the spectrum through refraction is a physical phenomenon.

So there.

[DulwichFox]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> DulwichFox, I would argue that a rainbow is not an

> illusion. The separation of the spectrum through

> refraction is a physical phenomenon.

>

> So there.

Crap

Read and Learn

Rainbows.

So there squared

[Jeremy]

In truth light is white, but when refraction of light in water takes place, the human eye perceives the entire gamut of colours.

This is completely incorrect. Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true.

Different colours are just different frequencies of light. The water vapour disperses the coloured components of white light at different angles. There is no illusion.

[sedgewick]

Some people believe that Rainbows have magical healing properties, and it is said that faith healers use the colours of the rays separately to heal different ailments. Even the pharmaceutical company's believe this to be true and colour their medicines accordingly. It is also believed that a rainbow is sent by god to help ease the pain and suffering and happens after tragic incidents.

I don't believe any of this mumbo jumbo myself.

Jacko.

[Huguenot]

Oh dear, this has become mumbo jumbo couched in unreasonable deductions based on experiential evidence.

Jeremy is quite right, our Basque friends do not have the inside story on rainbows. Refraction does bend light waves of different frequencies by different degrees. A rainbow is not an illusion. Blue light, with it's smaller wavelength will be bent (scattered) more than longer wavelength red light. It's the same reason the sky is blue (all that blue light scattered all over the place) and sunsets are red (because all of the shorter wavelength colours have been scattered by traveling through so much atmosphere leaving just the red to travel to your eye).

Pills have a different colour not because colours are 'healing' but because the mind responds differently to colour signals that are entirely natural in their provenance.