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Dorothy went over one. LeVar Burton read to us under one. In a song, Kermit the Frog connected us to one. Even Mork's suspenders were made of them.
Our culture, and our skies, are full of rainbows, but do you know how they form? Do we all see the same rainbow? Could cyborg-enhanced mantis shrimp eyes someday see a bigger rainbow?
The answer to all these questions involves a little physics, and the number 42.
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One day about twenty years ago, my dad excitedly called for my brother and I to come outside. It was one of those "rain coming down on a sunny day" moments, and in every direction that we looked, from right in front of our faces to as far as we could see, every raindrop that fell was part of a rainbow that we were standing in! We marveled at this rainbow for at least two or three minutes until it moved off into the distance with the rain. It was such a special occurrence that I will never forget it.
Wow, how lucky
Goals
Wow, that’s beautiful!
I love this channel.
Hi Joe! I'm from the Philippines and I am so amazed by the content of this video.
"The next time you see a rainbow, remember that even though there's no pot of gold at the end, no one else can see exactly the same rainbow that you can-and that sounds like treasure to me."
Epic. So epic.
John Allen Cris T. Delos Reyes Thanks!
same here phils...
He looks like erwan. Haha
Okaymia
My girlfriend and I actually drove under a rainbow. We were traveling on the interstate with the sun to our backs. When we went under it, I felt a split second calming and then a chill all over. She felt a euphoria of disbelief that this even happen. We could not believe it! We rolled the windows down and could see it on the backside until it faded away. Mind Blown
So if 42 can create rainbows, and 42 is the meaning of life, does that mean rainbows are the meaning of life?
Yes
Yes, yes it does.
I don't know.
Nikita Duplyakin Isn't 42 the answer to life, the universe and everything?
(6 x 22 x 180) creates rainbow (not 42). thanks.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I'll get to that soon . . . closer to winter
If someone is standing next to us and they have nornally functioning eyes, they would see the same rainbow we do, ornoretty close except for maybe aubtle shifts in brightness or intensity due to a slightly dofferent angle, but event thahts probably negligible..am i missing something?
It's been 10 years...
OMG ADVENTURE TIME! MY 2 FAVORITE THINGS COMBINED!!!
0:12 all the bronies screamed.
Also, that bit where he says "The Rainbow Factory", creepypasta loving bronies screamed even harder.
By now we're used to it. ;)
If I remember correctly, ROYGBIV was because the guy that came up with that initialism/acronym because he wanted it to be 2 colors, indigo isn't distinct enough between blue and violet to warrant being a part of color description.
I had a rainbow form around me once. I could look up and see it going into the sky. It only lasted for a couple of minutes. But it was really cool.
Thanks, I know Derek's videos well. I actually have a whole video about why the sky is any color at all, too! Hope you check it out.
Had always been told that rainbows come from one raindrop. I thought, "So why can multiple people see it? Wouldn't I need to be standing in exactly the right spot to see the rainbow if it's from a single raindrop?" Thanks for clearing that up, IOTBS!
I some times wonder what the other wave lengths in the electromagnetic spectrum would look like. What would their colours be? I mean, if we only see about 1% and there's as much colour variation in that 1% as we see, then it stands to reason that the other 99% has some variation too. So it makes me wonder just what colours are we missing? Even if there would just be too much to see, it would still be cool to know what those colours look like.
There are an infinite number of colours that we can't see.
Great job! Love the video! Was so great to share with my 6th grade classes and teach them all about rainbows!
love the hitchhikers guide reference
Amazing work ! Explained so meticulously !Really does wonders for curious people.Keep up the good work!
Rainbows, the kind in the sky, are way more awesome then I previously thought!
Are you going to do a video on fire rainbows? Because those are so freakin' awesome
I remember the time where this form of color is just called a rainbow, NOT A PRIDE FLAG OR LGBTQIA++!!!
ikrr
Literally no one mentioned the LGBTQ
So happy to see another video out! It was really interesting, thanks!
2:10 * starts singing * in the rainbow factory.... where your horrors and nightmares come true...
No, you and I can absolutely observe the same water bottle, you can trace to photons back to the same object. But a rainbow is made up of different droplets and different refracted light for every observer. For each eye, really.
Here’s my question: with a flashlight I cannot recreate a rainbow, but with a flashlight and mirror I can. What is it about the sun, that gives it the properties of a flashlight and mirror?
Your videos are really great! Putting Eric in there just earned you extra awesome points.
"Stay curious"
Now thats your line.
I'm distracted by the background music from 4:03 not because it's distracting but I like it very much..
This song is called All the Colors of the Rainbow
Solely dedicated to all the colors of the rainbow
Because a rainbow is a beautiful thing.
"This is Scout! Rainbows make me cry! Ovaih!"
1:20 check the validity of that graphics. Note that the refraction goes the wrong direction, and on entry at 90 degrees, there won't be refraction.
One question I've always had about rainbows that wasn't addressed: Why does the sky appear darker outside a rainbow than within one?
Also: Double rainbows, what do they mean???
Otherwise...awesome video(s)!
Thanks!
Rainbows and sundogs exist because of the dome
This is an amazing creation from a brilliant mind. Everything about it is appealing and I am very pleased to have stumbled upon this.
Great video! Kudos!
Expecting more 42 - Hitchhiker jokes here, kinda disappointing.
if something is filtered out before you know its there, or gets from point A to point B, how can you prove it was there in the first place.
Also, humans only see half of a rainbow. Rainbows are full circles. (I saw this on TV once but sadly I don’t remember where.)
I'm learning about this is school in science class but I have a week off school and you reminded me I only have 3 days left 😭😭😭
I have a plastic prism I hope it works or it’s sunny tomorrow I’m supposed to show my Sunday school class how a prism makes rainbows 🌈
Love the references haha, keep up the awesome work!
I just watched a few of this guys videos. I like your style of explanation. Do you write your lines yourself? Keep it up either way!
You can too get to the end of a rainbow. Twice in my life I saw where it came down onto a field. Although you could clearly see as people were walking amongst it, when actually at the colors at the end you cannot see it. But back away some and you could see it. I used to believe that it was only in the sky until the day I was playing softball and right end the end of left field you could clearly see the rainbow touching the ground. Everyone saw it. You can't see it as you walk into it though.
Glad to help!
I don't see a Vsauce video link, FYI
Vsauce vid link missing
Good video but i
Was looking for spectroscopy info about the elements identified
At 3:28, replace "rainbow" with "genitals"
PokemonDiamondUS .................. SO MATURE....WOW..THAT'S REALLY MATURE..... Do you understand sarcasm?
PokemonDiamondUS YYYYYYYYYYY dawg
My rainbow is bigger than your rainbow
Michael from Vsauce has an answer to that.
My rainbow is real right
No one:
Litterlly no one:
Me: *_I just realised that white light is gay._*
So how can I create my own full.circle.double rainbow on a smaller scale that is similar to the ones outside? I've never seen a model to show one anywhere I have looked. EDIT ADD: not with a hose or otherwIse outside but an indoor artificial setup.
I like your merch 10/10.
I can recommend the site you'll find when searching for "atmospheric optics rainbows" without the quotes. I thought I knew everything about rainbows but boy was I wrong.
I saw a rainbow or two on my trip, I was in NM so there was mountains. There were massive rainbows that went across the sky and they were perfect red to purple.
Wow! The second this video ended I looked out my window and there it was, A rainbow!
Dear God! He should do a video about giraffes raining from the sky and as soon the video ends BOOM right outside your window
I know right!..
The magic window.. And its potential. ^^
As an English teacher in France, I love your channel! Carry on!
You just send those people who mock and judge you over here, and we'll take care of 'em.
Indigo and violet are shades of purple in my Sunday school class we are studying Noah’s ark the main focus has been on the rainbow and God keeping his promises this time.
I'm 8 years late to this video but... my oh my, that was so philosophical :)
I'm not sure exactly which Thor comic it's from, but I'm pretty sure it's from the Journey Into Mystery series in '64 or '65
Most underrated science youtuber.
All About Science not anymore.
I was going to say that there are an infinite number of colors in a rainbow, but then you talked about how two drops would send two different colors to your eyes, and it hit me. There are as many colors in a rainbow as there are drops of water refracting the light.
Read "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to get that one.
How many colors in the rainbow?
For humans, 6 colors.
The 3 most saturated colors:
Red,
Green,
Blue,
And the 3 pair of saturated colors
Red + Green
Red + Blue : violet or pink, not really present in the rainbox
Green + Blue
We learn to recognize and name other colors, but they are just variation of the intensity of each of the 3 colors. It is equivalent to give different name to a loud music instrument versus another faint one. Although, we feel like hearing different sound when the relative intensity of each harmonic changes, so maybe we really recognize more than 6 colors.
So maybe the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy wasn't really just a comedy after all
so, I Had to Check a Captcha Box to watch this... is there really a problem with Robots learning about Rainbows... or do we just not want them feeling superior and going Full Cavil with
"I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to-I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more."
If i didn't already know how a rainbow was formed, I'd be scratching my head over this video.
I would love to paint with a rainbow with all sorts of extra colours. That would be so freaking cool.
The mantis shrimp can detect 5400 different colour wavelengths. Just kidding, they can only see 12.
According to the Bible, a rainbow is a sign that God will never send another great flood upon the earth. Always give thanks. Blessings to all
We now know that’s not the case
This was a wonderful video . I think anyone can understand it easily.
I completely agree with you about that.
I still don't understand the apex thing and why it's 42 degrees and why it's a bow and has a specific size to it, I might have missed a couple of concepts there.
so...light enters the drop and we got refraction (2:17)...then light gets reflected at the back of the drop (2:23) ...why it is not reflected again? ..at 2:32....
thanks
Depends on the angle, if the angle of incidence is smaller than critical angle then total internal reflection won't happen
the light can bounce again. this is where double rainbows come from. Google high order rainbows.
We can see a little of the two bordering sections, IR and UV which we see as a deeper red and a darker violet/purple. After infrared (IR) is microwaves, which are longer still, deeper than red, and reflecting more intensely off hard and metal objects than visible light. Your imagination is a good source for this question. The art students would love a 78 color rainbow, painting with x-rays and radios.
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n
Well the radio waves would likely just scatter from the raindrops or just pass through, since their wavelength is so large. X-rays would not make a bow at all because, aside from the fact that they would pass right through the water with barely any reflection, they do not refract through most materials. Any x-rays that happen to reflect off the back of the raindrop would just reflect back from a point, since they do not refract.
Has a Rainbow Dash pic at the beginning, and mentions 'Rainbow Factory'? Could be coincidence...
You can also see a red rain bow i saw one last week
his humor is fantastic x
Love all of the colors of the rainbow and especially blue.
Very helpful and informative, thank you so much.
Its because the the light is reflected twice inside the droplets "above" the primary rainbow.
2:23 shows you the lines crossing each other once. If they did it twice the red would be on top and the purple be in the bottom. :)
A detailed explanation here: /watch?v=OXDbc7QfTXU
It's Okay To Be *LGBT!*
This is true 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
No
That would. Imagine seeing radio waves in the air as colors and multi-hued microwaves pouring out when you cook something.
Norwegian only? God damnit it is scandinavian, the whole mythology got it's beginnings in what is modern day denmark!
Thanks for the fast response, I understand now what you mean with see a different rainbow. If you were able to freeze time, trace back the photons and remove the droplets, what would happen? You rainbow dissapears for that moment of time but would there be rainbows visible from other angles or are all rainbow droplets gone?
Joe is as exciting as a lecture by a British physicist with his voice synthesizer turned off.
I'd just tell them that their TV's, cars, and cell phones are all thanks to science. If they want the next new/better/faster then they should thank those of us interested in science because we are the ones that make them.
Also, I love your videos.
Best explanation out there
I have seen a circular one when my glasses were cloudy and looking at a lamp
I can't see the link you mention in the video--where is it? Great work, by the way :D
The colors of the rainbow is so beautiful.
when i was on a plane last year i looked down to see a rain'bow' circle.
How does a rain drop stay together while falling and doesnt disapear with the wind or air?
You could have stopped after 42, no need to go any further.
Seriously though, great video and keep them coming!
Unless you take a photo of it and you can both enjoy the exact same imagine of one together:)
Nice but that leaves me with another puzzle...even if all droplets refract-reflect-refract at the same angle...they are in different positions relative to our eyes...so blue from one may come at an angle as red from other. And since there are millions of such suspended drops the resulting experience must be of white! but it doesn't!! Help me out here :)
PS: I am wondering whether distance in our eyes which helps us realize the depth of scene has anything to do with it!
@
ck_ Actually, you can only see the light coming from blue because the other orientations are invisible to you.
Rainbow... Factory?
*shivering*
Ooh the science of rainbow
In Norwegian mythology? It's called Norse mythology for a reason, all of Scandinavia had this belief in some variation before Christianity came along, not just Norwegians (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland etc.). Usually I wouldn't comment about something like this, but it's an important difference.
- A Norwegian.
think of it this way, a mist cloud might be evaporating or blowing away as you are looking at a rainbow and person B, 10 distance units away might see NO rainbow because there are no drops in position to create one. She'll think you are seeing things, and you'll wish she wasn't. That was YOUR rainbow. Does that make sense?
Sensational. Wonderfully, well done.
Tiny droplets? Pff, you just need a box of crayons and a picture of a pegasus family.
42 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!! lol
I can't quite tell exactly what you were trying to say... Black is what we see when an object absorbs all of the visible light wavelengths; white reflects all of them.
The answer to life the universe and everything is rainbows... :) awesome video as usual :)
It couldn't be more on purpose, unless I dressed as a dolphin or something!
Punny
Good video but you should have mentioned rainbows are not just arcs, they're full circles when not intersecting the ground.
why when we look to the deviation of colors in a water sphere we see violet on top and red down, but, when we look to a rainbow in the sky by our own eyes we see purple down and red on top? ( min 2:57 doesn't convince me )
I understand you said "looks white", but just as a factoid by Veritasium, sunlight is white, just a little shifted to the blue hues. Therefore, the sky is blue not violet when sunlight is scattered. If you haven't heard of him, search up his channel for cool videos at 1veritasium.
1:05
I KNEW IT THOUGHTY2 WAS SAYING 42 ALL ALONG.
Excuse me. The guy at 0:49 is not Buda. His name is Hotei
When we were kids, my parents would turn on the sprinklers in our front yard during the summer and we would run through them.. eventually we started to see little rainbows