Episode 52: Applications of Optics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Different Colors of Rainbows
The light that's entering your eyes is coming from different raindrops. The person standing next to us might get the red whereas we get the blue and someone else standing on our other side gets the yellow because the light it emits is spread out at different angles. When you add them all together you will see all of the different colors of the rainbow. There are two sets of primary colors so within each given set of primary colors you can produce all the other colors by mixing them in various combinations.
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