what makes the sky blue ?

carol_who shines @carol_who shines

May 2021 9 24 Report

what makes the sky blue ?

I had to look up the answer , It was driving me crazy lol

I would like to find , someone that can answer this and explain in a simple way .

Don't became a scientist OK

Please no one word answers OK

Update:

@ Sunny , I already know the answer , I wanted to have it explained in a simple form " like for kids " that everyone can understand .

I think you just messed up the question, but thanks you , I guess it makes everything easy now . " I smile "

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GoldenSeaman

Verified answer

Hi Carol

here is how the story goes

one Beam of white light actually consists of seven colors

how do we know ?

when we passed it through a prism * a pyramid like piece of glass

this is what we got

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5...

7 colors of light

each one of them has a distinguishing character called the wave length

as light is made out of light of several frequencies (colors) traveling together red has the longest wave length that makes it the fastest and it can pass through many mediums with out change while at the bottom there is violet which has the shortest wave length and the highest thermal content . These basic frequencies of visible light are part of what we call visible spectrum, as when a ray of white light is directed towards a matter it will absorb some light and reflect the rest and that's how we see different colors as different matters with different structures will perform the process of absorption and reflection or even diffraction in different manners and that's how you see a Blue sky and that's how you see a red rose too !

are there invisible light waves ?

yes

infra red * that we use in Remote Controls things like your TV

also it can be used for night vision and Temperature mesurement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ir_girl.png

its very fast and efficient

ultra violet* rays with short wave length and high heat content * this is the one that cause sun burns

and we use it in microwaves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_sun.jpg

x- rays * shorter wave length

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e...

Gama rays * even shorter wave length than x rays

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_gamma_rays_...

njie

that is not possibly suggestions boggling; water is blue because of the fact it... is blue (in case you have a swimming pool which seems blue, take a white bucket and quite the water. The water would be sparkling, yet interior the swimming pool it seems blue. Why is this? that is because of the fact water, in super parts, is blue). The sky is blue additionally in view that's blue; the greater technical clarification is that the ambience reflects blue gentle downwards and the different gentle (specifically pink and orange) sidewards; because of the fact of this sunrises and sunsets are pink.

Anonymous

The earth like a giant magnet has a norh and south magnetic pole, which bends the light particles and (scientifically involving things with the colour spectrum) changes it's frequency so that we see it as blue.

Make My Day™

When clouds in the sky condense they disappear or at least you can't see them from Earth , so it rains . That's what makes the sky blue ( the disappearance of clouds) Hope i helped .