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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 21 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: What makes the sea water so salty and why is the ocean and the sky so blue? science
Kinda. Are you familiar with the concept of wavelengths?
Blue has a smaller wavelength than other colors that are present in sunlight, such as red for instance. The sky is full of particles and gases. Because of the small wavelength, the blue light gets scattered much more in all directions, and thus blue gets distributed all around in the sky, while the other colors just pass through without "staying stuck" in the sky. So wherever you look in the sky, it looks mostly blue.
To understand why shorter wavelengths get scattered more, think of water... big waves and small waves. The big wave has a long wavelength while small waves have a small wavelength. You can probably visualize that big waves are barely affected by small rocks while small waves are much more affected by small rocks. It is the same for the sunlight... it behaves like a wave where the particles in the sky are the rocks.