Amit Mishra

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If all light was scattered equally, the sky would look white. But it doesn’t. The reason is that the shorter wavelengths of light are more likely to be scattered than the longer ones, which means that blues get bounced around the sky more than reds and yellows. So instead of seeing a white sky when we look up, we see a blue one.
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
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