Why is the Sky Any Color?
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“Why is the sky blue”? It sounds like a question that’s as old as time, but it isn’t that old at all. When the Greek poet Homer wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad, he never once used a word for “blue”. From Greece to Africa to China, blue turns out to be one of the last colors that languages figure out a word for. For a long time, many people thought that the sky was blue for the same reason the ocean is blue: Air, like water, is only very faintly colored blue. So though a small amount appears to be colorless, an ocean, lake, or the sky naturally looks deep blue. Of course, that’s COMPLETELY wrong, and the sky isn’t even always blue, right? At the beginning and end of the day, it looks red or orange. So now we have two questions: Why is the sky blue, and also why is t...
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“Why is the sky blue”? It sounds like a question that’s as old as time, but it isn’t that old at all. When the Greek poet Homer wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad, he never once used a word for “blue”. From Greece to Africa to China, blue turns out to be one of the last colors that languages figure out a word for. For a long time, many people thought that the sky was blue for the same reason the ocean is blue: Air, like water, is only very faintly colored blue. So though a small amount appears to be colorless, an ocean, lake, or the sky naturally looks deep blue. Of course, that’s COMPLETELY wrong, and the sky isn’t even always blue, right? At the beginning and end of the day, it looks red or orange. So now we have two questions: Why is the sky blue, and also why is t...
