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- From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:42:33 GMT
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- Andrew Mullhaupt writes:
- > Why is the sky blue?
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- You'll get lots and lots of answers, and I'll bet my tenure that not one
- of them will address the question "Why?"; they'll all address the question
- "How?". They'll go on and on about scattering of light from Nitrogen
- molecules, but the question of "Why?" is much harder. The mechanism that
- makes the sky blue is well understood, but why does that mechanism exist,
- instead of one that makes the sky, say, green? This rapidly gets into
- metaphysics; I think the answer has to do with conditions that make it
- possible for us to exist to ask the question in the first place.
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- * These are my opinions only.*
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