Hello friend, thank you so much for this clarification! I'm very glad you made this video, the only regret I have is not taking psychedelics before watching. Have a colorful day!
with due respect sir i will share my short knowladge with all watching person and with you rinbo colour we can understand by simple word VIBGYOR this is showing all the colur of rainbow
Some light is refracted and do pass through the back of the drop. Only a fraction of light is reflected from backside, and that reflected light cause rainbow.
What causes light to bounce in the water droplet & not pass through? Although some light must be made through the droplet what makes this so? How does the light escape the droplet what factors cause this? Even with the other videos I still have a hard time understanding. Shouldn't we see a micro rainbow full circle infront of a viewer, if that viewer is directly surrounded with suspended water & white light from the Sun from all directions?
Whenever light reach a new medium, some of it may reflect, while some if it may pass through. This happens at every boundary with the water, but obviously the other light is lost in other directions which our eye doesn't see.
"Shouldn't we see a micro rainbow full circle infront of a viewer" If you were to draw out all the lightrays from the sun, it would look like a complete mess with light bouncing everywhere (we're talking light being reflected/transmitted at/through at every surface in every raindrop, as well as incident light hitting all different points of the raindrops). Luckily, you only need to consider the light that actually makes it to your eye, so you can disregard pretty much all of this. If you were to do this, you would clearly see why the rainbow shape appears. You're right in that raindrops close to our eyes also reflect "rainbow-light" into our eyes, which increases the perceived intensity. The rainbow appearing "at a distance" is of course an illusion, and all raindrops at the right angle, stretching far into a distance, will reflect some of the light into your eye.
Great thinking to have these questions. Will answer one by one. 1. What causes some of the light to bounce and some to pass through? To answer this, we need to consider quantum behaviour of light and the answer is probability. To further understand this, I would recommend you to read Richard Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" (Quantum Electro Dynamics) 2. Micro rainbow formation... This could be theoretically possible. But the intensity of those coloured light, compared to the ambient light would be so less. The intensity depends on number of drops lined up for producing a particular colour in the cone. Hope this helps.
