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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <1123@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:17:50 GMT
- References: <1099@kepler1.rentec.com> <BrzH7H.DJw@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <BrzH7H.DJw@acsu.buffalo.edu> kriman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman) writes:
- > In the ravel of thread that followed, a consensus developed for the
- >standard "correct" answer of Rayleigh scattering. As has been noted in
- >many posts, this perception is not just a question of physics. In fact,
- >the standard answer would yield not a blue sky but a PURPLE one, if our
- >eyes were equally sensitive throughout the spectrum of "visible" lights.
- >(It's why we speak of ultra-_violet_, and not "ultra-blue".)
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- OK It's getting to be time I posted my prediction.
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- >P.S. Why does everybody forget blueberries when talking about blue foods?
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- Karlin's answer to this was No - blue on the vine, _purple on the plate_. So
- blueberries were not (for him) blue food.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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