Growing
up as a child did you ever ask
the age old question "why the sky is
blue?" The sky is blue because the ocean is blue and it
reflects
it's blue
color on to the earth's atmosphere.
Or
have you heard that the sky is blue
because the blue light from the
sun relfects off of dust particles in the air in the earth's atmosphere.
Or
wait I have another one... Have you
ever been told that during the
night there is no sun, so of course the sky is black....then when the
sun rises it brightens up the sky and BAM! You got you self a blue sky!
Well,
these are all common explainations
as to why the sky is blue, but
they are all common misconceptions.
To really get a good understanding as to why the sky is blue you
need
to understand three things:
