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Things You Thought You Knew – Somewhere Over the Rainbow

StarTalk Radio

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Your Rainbow Is Unique to You

Iben al hathan was the first to deduce that sight is not you beaming stuff out of your eyes. Your eyeballs are just sitting there, waiting for light to enter and for your brain to then make an image. So what that means is all of the rainbow light that's coming to you is exiting those raindrops at the precise angle that enters your eyeballs. That means your rainbow is unique to you. Every rainbow you have ever seen has been exactly face on to you. Oh, my god, my own private rainbow.

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