{"id":183357,"date":"2019-02-25T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=183357"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:44:50","slug":"can-you-reach-end-of-rainbow","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/can-you-reach-end-of-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Reach The End Of A Rainbow?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sadly you\u2019ll never taste that rainbow after running into it with your mouth open, and you\u2019ll never get that little green-clad Irish fella\u2019s pot of gold.\n
You’ll also never be able to go over the rainbow, way up high, like Dorothy sang about.\n
Heck \u2013 whilst I\u2019m here bursting bubbles, I might as well let you know that you can’t reach the horizon!\n
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Well, simply put it’s because rainbows are actually optical illusions rather than something physical or tangible.\n
A rainbow is formed because raindrops act like tiny little prisms.\n
Raindrops refract and internally reflect the light of the sun towards you as you look at them.\n
Different wavelengths of light refract at different angles, so the sun’s white light is divided into the orderly set of huge arcing colors you see in a rainbow.\n
So, with this in mind, it makes fairly logical sense that when you move towards a rainbow, the angles you’re viewing it through change.\n
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For the colors of the rainbow to be created visually, the water droplets have to be a certain distance from you.\n As you move towards the rainbow, it will always be the same distance away from you, so you can never reach it.\n For a rainbow to remain constant, the angle between the sun, the droplet, and the observer has to be at 42 degrees.\n Now, as I mentioned above, you’ll also never be able to go over the rainbow.\nIf you can\u2019t go over the rainbow, how do people take photos from an airplane?\n
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