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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <1111@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 21:12:21 GMT
- References: <1099@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul22.154233.21594@linus.mitre.org>
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- In article <1992Jul22.154233.21594@linus.mitre.org> m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) writes:
- >Andrew Mullhaupt writes:
- >> Why is the sky blue?
- >
- >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.
-
- Well, I don't mean to be too directive about it - I want to know what
- physicists actually say when you ask them that question. If I can find it,
- I will post what my prediction was (posted in another group recently) and
- a summary of the net's responses.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-