If a rainbow is just a reflection of light, why is it arched? 🤔 Most reflections we see are straight lines — mirrors, water, glass. So why does a rainbow curve across the sky? Makes you think… are we missing something about how this place is structured? Dome? Flat... earth? Or is there a deeper explanation we’re not being told? 🌈 Just asking questions.show more

Jesus! just Google the answer! We have got the entire worlds information at our fingertips and people are dumber than ever! It’s fucking ridiculous!

I’m sorry I like to post what interests me. No need for all that.

Google Four words There is no mystery When I was a kid we had to go to a library and look it up in text books Today you have every scientific answer available on your phone in seconds! Google it.

Sunlight refracts and reflects inside spherical raindrops. Thus the circle

Nope. Rainbows are circles, but the horizon blocks the lower half.

@MagaGrunt1 I’m glad you guys had the right answer, but remember God created the rainbow as a promise he would never flood the Earth again😎👍🇺🇸

@MagaGrunt1 Yes 100%

@wickedcece315 In my opinion the rainbow is arched because that’s how God makes it.

@dsware123 @wickedcece315 Great answer

Doesn't it make sense that on a spherical planet with a layer of atmosphere, that layer of atmosphere would also be spherical? Rainbows can only be seen when your back is to the sun, because you are seeing a reflection from a layer of ice crystals and water droplets in the atmosphere in which the angle of the sun to the crystals and droplets, creates a prism effect separating the colors of the light that is reflected to your eye. What you see is rounded because the medium it is coming from (atmosphere) is rounded. The atmosphere is rounded because gravity is holding it to a planet that is rounded.

Sunlight refracts & reflects in spherical drops, exiting at a fixed 42° "Descartes ray" angle. This creates a light cone; u see a curve where 42° stays constant. - No dome or flat earth conspiracy, just basic science guys.

The firmament 👇

Never used a garden hose, huh?

Rainbows are formed through a three-step process—refraction, reflection, and dispersion—that occurs when sunlight interacts with water droplets in the atmosphere.

The firmament

Someone Must have never played with the rain or with the water hose noticed that a rainbow occurs in the mist.

@end3of6days9 Be nice everybody. The Earth is not only flat, round, spherical square, cube, oblong, and every other shape that you can think of—it’s also the place where we all live and breathe.

Light forms a prism through droplets at the proper angles. The necessary angles exist in a circle from your point of view: angles spread out from the straight line between you and the sun. You usually only see part of the circle

And back to back rainbows are inverted, as a reflection would be.

Easy answer God put it there and yes there is a firmament but it is around the whole earth earth isn’t round it’s slightly bigger on one side like a pear or an egg

🤦🏼‍♂️ the future is screwed 🤷‍♂️😂

Muted

Haha I’m a physicist. This is adorable. Perhaps look up dispersion

No its not its light bend through the rain not the dome🙂

No,no,no the rainbow is arched because of the curvature of the earth and the formation of the rainbow happens because of the water that still being held in the clouds, it cause the sun light to split into Rainbow, the color white is actually a mix of all other colors combined

This is the dumpest thing I have ever heard

You were just saying how the rainbows were going from the corner, so IF the earth had a dome around it IF, it could not come from a SMOOTH ROUNDED OBJECT, because then the rainbow would not come out as how we see it, it would come out as some sort of weird shaped thing

It’s not a reflection.. It’s a refraction I know they sound the same, but they are very different One is bouncing the light, the other is redirecting the light People need to get their facts straight before they start freaking out over things

Yeah, that guy really knows what he’s talking about. JFC. What a fucking moron. And the people agreeing…get help. You’re stupid.

Fishbowl

This is so fucking stupid he pointed at the edges of the glass

Simple 8th grade science

A rainbow is a circle you mug, you just don't see it all

Dumb ass.

Dude is just thick as fuck 🤣🤣🤣

Its from rain and the way the is shinning on the rain