{"id":94723,"date":"2019-08-13T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:22:30","slug":"why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t rainbows blurred-out into nothing after they are produced?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I understand how a prism works and how a <em>single<\/em> raindrop can scatter white light into a rainbow, but it seems to me that in normal atmospheric conditions, we should not be able to see rainbows.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced3.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-arent-rainbows-blurred-out-into-nothing-after-they-are-produced3.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When multiple raindrops are side-by-side, their emitted spectra will overlap. An observer at X will see light re-mixed from various originating raindrops. The volume of rain producing a rainbow typically has an angular diameter at least as wide as the rainbow itself, does it not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand how a prism works and how a single raindrop can scatter white light into a rainbow, but it seems to me that in normal atmospheric conditions, we should not be able to see rainbows. When multiple raindrops are side-by-side, their emitted spectra will overlap. An observer at X will see light re-mixed from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}