Double Rainbow

[sedgewick]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> 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.

So what affect do they have on blind people?

[Huguenot]

Well, none.

Unless they hum the 'Marseillaise' of course. The pills rather than the consumer.

[Alec John Moore]

I like the notion that objects are every colour of the rainbow except the colour they appear to be. This is because they reflect the colour we see and absorb the rest of the spectrum. So the pills mentioned above are all the colours of the rainbow, except the healing colour.

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