Right, your point is taken but the point is more to explain the full portion of the rainbow. Not just the section you see.
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chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Is the cross section of a cone not a circle, or semi circle in this case since we only see part of the “cone”?
irish_link@lemmy.world 2 days ago
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Every person sees a rainbow in a different location because rainbows are an optical phenomenon not a real object - in that sense rainbows are occupying the entire space, not just a cone even. The expansion is dumb.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I watched Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and you are right.
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
There are gaps in between the rain drops which means we see other parts of the cone.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 days ago
This. We don’t as people define a rainbow as the path of light or anything like that. We define a rainbow as a circle of colors in the sky. That’s how language works.