Comment on The colour of the Sun is white
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year agoIsn’t that because blue is higher frequency and therefore refracts more than the other colors?
Comment on The colour of the Sun is white
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year agoIsn’t that because blue is higher frequency and therefore refracts more than the other colors?
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good question. No idea. If higher frequency correlates with more scattering, then UV should also be scattered, right? Or is it something about blue visible light being just right for our kid of gases? Interesting question since that mix has changed over time. Perhaps the sky was another color during life’s early years. Is that why they’re called the Cyanobacteria? Because they turned the sky blue?
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My understanding is that higher frequency == more refraction, visible or not. So in theory, x and gamma radiation should also experience more refraction. Though I wonder at what point (it any) something too high energy can somehow “pierce” through a medium rather than refracting.