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.
Is anything at the end of the rainbow? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down how rainbows work, the history behind zero, and what Zoom calls and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity have in common.
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