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sunset, more blue right scattered, then red light come to us, isn't it the same as day time where blue is still scattered and red come to us?

I know I'm late for the party but I've got a question. As Rayleigh scattering is highly dependent on the EM wavelenght, why, in medical imaging, it occurs mostly for very low energy x-rays - in the range of 15 to 30 kev - instead of high energy ones with shorter wavelenght?

holy shit now i know why the sky is blue

So if the red light passes through, why do we still see during the sunset?

Why isn’t the sky more blue or blue/red when the sunsets

Not very consistent reasoning: here 1:46 more scattering gives us a blue sky, here 2:17 more scattering gives us a red sky.

Why not voilet

Your graphics are kind of misleading. It kinda shows that rayleigh scattering reflects sunlight in an angle so it reaches earth, while it seems from your graphics that redlight pass through atmosphere into galaxy. Your graphics about why sky is reddish is also kind of misleading, because you ignore all spectrum in between red and blue. In actuality, all wavelength can be see on earth, that's why we can see a lot of colors.

Hmm! I'm not so sure how valid this explanation is. When light reaches the Earths atmosphere which consists of molecules that have a dipole moment , the atmosphere is bombarded by a field of photons whos electric fields interact with the the molecules causing the electrons within them to oscillate back and forth. When electrons accelerate they also emit radiation in the form photons. Rayleighs law states that the intensity of the emitted radiation is proportional to 1/wavelength^4 of the incoming light and since blue light has the smallest wavelength of about 400 nm the intensity of the scattered light will be the greatest for the smallest wavelength. Additionally, there will be very little photon-particle scattering (photons colliding with atoms/molecules) due to the very low density of the Earths gas atmosphere. Another thing to note is that Rayleighs law is only valid if the wavelength of the light is much, much smaller than the molecules it is 'interacting' with. A C02 molecule is about 3.0 nm and that of blue light as mentioned before 400 nm

I call bulshit. if the blue light scattered on particles . we would see the particles or some effect of scattering light. can't tell me only blue light hits particles until there are enough particles for red light to hit. they would have to be perfectly arranged. nope. but there is a density factor that is consistent. with the belt of venus. which contradict this story .

The pool table analogy is so wrong - don’t believe it.