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Old 26-September-2003, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by fusion
but isn't the reason the sun appears yellow just a result of the Rayleigh scattering of the blue light...?
It's not as simple as that. In the book, Phil says that the amount of blue light scattered out of the white sunlight isn't nearly enough to make the Sun appear yellow. His final verdict is that we just don't know why the Sun is perceived as yellow.

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