oooh, i get it. har de har, hex codes. also, it's blue because of light scattering off hydrogen atoms in the atmosphere. wrincewind16 months ago#1260reply
Tyndall and Rayleigh thought that the blue colour of the sky must be due to small particles of dust and droplets of water vapour in the atmosphere. Even today, people sometimes incorrectly say that this is the case. Later scientists realised that if this were true, there would be more variation of sky colour with humidity or haze conditions than was actually observed, so they supposed correctly that the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen in the air are sufficient to account for the scattering. The case was finally settled by Einstein in 1911, who calculated the detailed formula for the scattering of light from molecules; and this was found to be in agreement with experiment. He was even able to use the calculation as a further verification of Avogadro's number when compared with observation. The molecules are able to scatter light because the electromagnetic field of the light waves induces electric dipole moments in the molecules. - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.htmlHydrogen atoms don't exist by themselfs for very long, and when they are a compound their properties change and still wouldn't explain the color!Hazzah! Now to my next webcomic to crush the chances of other people looking smart!Anonymous16 months ago#1286reply
Also, people just look up questions in a Wiki. Hard to look smart on the net, when you could easily be copy/pasting info.Anonymous10 months ago#2468reply
