What is a Rainbow

[tharkun73]

http://milesmathis.com/rainbow2.pdf

 

[Nithavela]

Miles Mathis is known for spouting nonsense on almost anything he deigns to share his opinions about. I see no reason to believe this being different and anything but a waste of time. If there is something you want to discuss, I suggest you write those points yourself instead of posting a pdf document.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A rainbow is dispersion of refracted light.

 

[Hans Blaster]

A rainbow is dispersion of refracted light.

By water droplets in the atmosphere.

 

[Grafted In]

Perhaps since He is Light, while promising never to destroy the world again with water, a display of the infinite colors of light He is, revealing Himsrlf in a unique way.

 

[Yttrium]

Perhaps since He is Light, while promising never to destroy the world again with water, a display of the infinite colors of light He is, revealing Himsrlf in a unique way.

By refracting Himself through water droplets?

 

[SelfSim]

By refracting Himself through water droplets?

I don't know about that .. but Mathis seems to think:

It turns out that Descartes was completely wrong. Rainbows are not caused by a refraction of sunlight by a triple bounce inside a raindrop. Nor are the colors split in the way claimed, with red being refracted by different drops than violet. That is all just a fairly ingenious myth.
The Sun is commonly behind us at certain angles, it is true, but that is because the rainbow is primarily a reflection of the Sun cast upon a field of moisture or dense atmosphere from behind. A bright patch in the far sky acts as a reflector, and the dense atmosphere in between acts as a screen. We are seeing a cast image of the Sun in the sky. In this way, we see that Alexander's band is actually an image of the least luminous band of the Solar corona.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I don't know about that .. but Mathis seems to think:

"seems" is the critical word in this sentence.

 

[Apple Sky]

http://milesmathis.com/rainbow2.pdf

A rainbow just like a sun dog is a reflection off the firmament.

 

[SelfSim]

"seems" is the critical word in this sentence.

Yep .. for me, nothing he writes is ever straightforward.
What came up for me as I was reading it was like: Where are his models describing what he's talking about? Its all words .. with no objective models(?)

 

[BeyondET]

A Tree.