World's Most Asked Questions: Why is the Sky Blue?
People ask Google everything under the sun. One of the most commonly searched questions in the world is “Why Is the Sky Blue?” Allow us at SciShow to ...
========== It’s the mother of all questions! Well, except maybe What’s the Meaning of
Life? -- which we actually have our own scientific answers to … Or What Is Love? -- We have some thoughts
on that, too. But one of the most googled questions in the
English-speaking world is the one that kids are famous for asking -- and grown-ups are
notorious for avoiding, because they just don’t know. Why is the sky blue? Just give me a couple minutes and I'll let
you know why. This is the World’s Most Asked Questions! [Intro] The sky is blue because of three things: light
from the sun, particles in our atmosphere, and the fact that you’re a human. I’ll get to that last part in just a minute. But let’s start with how sunlight interacts
with particles in the sky. I’m not talking about dust...