RE: A Flat Earther's Rough Guide To Winning A Nobel Prize - Overcoming Rayleigh: Why Is The Sky Blue?
@cryptogee Nice post, however I think your missing half of the story as to why the sky is blue. There is an electric dipole interaction between the atoms in the atmosphere and the light that comes from the sun. The electric field causes an oscillation of the dipole, blue light has a higher frequency than red, so oscillates the dipoles at a faster rate.
This equation basically says that there is more power emitted for higher frequency oscillations. Therefore the sky seems blue because the dipoles are emitting more blue light than red. This is the reason the sky is blue.
When the sun is low then scattering of the light dominates, so more red light is scattered into the atmosphere, even though the dipole interaction is still occurring.
I hope that helped :)
See you around @physics.benjamin
Beautifully put Benjamin, thank you!
I did actually see this formula as I was researching the article; however I couldn't figure out a way of putting it in, whilst still talking about the angle of incidence of sunlight at evening, and making my flat earth point in less than 800 words :-)
Cg
Thank you very much. You did an awesome job at explaining it, and hopefully it shuts up the flat earthers, they are a pain in the bum.
I remember my physics teacher saying that the sky is blue because of diffraction saying "blue bends best", yes it bends best but it didnt cause the blue sky haha. I was happy to learn to real reason.
Thanks for your contribution to shutting up that ridiculous movement. I'll find some time to have a look at your other posts too :)
See you around @cryptogee :D
Haha, thanks, I'm sure it won't do anything to shut up the real hardcore, but hopefully it will do some small good in educating somebody who is just coming to the theory and thinking that it has some credibility.
See you around and, long live sanity! :-)
Cg