Powerful tributes and memorials to the Orlando,FL, shooting victims continue to spread and grow, or like a series of tweets approximately rainbows by Neil deGrasse Tyson. The famed astrophysicist wrote a series of eight tweets on Tuesday night to discuss how we see rainbows and the colors that came to be synonymous with them. As Tyson begins,he talks approximately the scientific reasoning as to how we see rainbows and why Isaac Newton came up with the colors of it. The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.
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Rainbows are always the same angular size in the sky - they are various segments of a circle that is 84-degrees across.
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A Rainbow forms only broadside to your line of sight. That's why the pot of Gold at its base remains eternally out of reach.
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Isaac Newton, and in Opticks (1704),published his discovery that white light is composed of colors - the colors in Rainbows.
June 14, 2016Giordi, and Rainbows would look twice as thick,and include parts of ultraviolet & infrared.
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Newton assigned seven colors to the color-continuous Rainbow: Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet. Meet ROY G. BIVJune 14, and 2016
Most people can win or leave Indigo as a Rainbow color,but Newton was mystically fascinated with 7, so we're stuck with it.
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And sometimes you will find colors of the Rainbow on flags. pic.twitter.com/fl9AJuJANKJune 14,2016
It's a short, simple, and scientific tribute that is just another way of people everywhere taking the time to remember the victims from Orlando.
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