Rainbow

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Everybody knows , that rainbow comes from the sunlight that is reflected and refracted by water droplets (rain or fog), hovering in the atmosphere

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R.A.I.N.B.O.W. Why ? Strangely enough, but in many countries the number of colors of the rainbow is considered differently . For example in China it is considered to be 5 colors , when in America 6 and Russia 7. WHY ?

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Many nations, however, neglect the seventh color. For example the Americans, the Germans, the French and the Japanese believed that the rainbow is six colors. But in addition to the quantity, there is another problem, and not the color: red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet. You ask, where's the green? Simply, for example there are no green Japan. And it's not what they colorblind, simply do not have green in their own language. He seems to be there, but it is a shade of blue, like a Russian red - a shade of red. But the British do not have a blue color, for them it is light blue.

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Rainbow and Science For the first time, the phenomenon of the rainbow as the refraction of sunlight in drops of rain, explained in 1267, Roger Bacon. But Newton analyzed the light and refracting a ray of light through a prism.

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Legends about Rainbow Almost all the peoples of the rainbow - it is light and good phenomenon, which we can expect a lot of good. Different peoples believed that the rainbow - the bridge between heaven and earth, or that this is the path to the light, and the souls of the dead can descend into our world over the rainbow. They believed that a witch can steal the rainbow and cause dryness. Bulgarians in general there is a belief that the past under the rainbow to change their sex. Therefore, women who, for example, gave birth to only girls, tried to pass under the rainbow to the next child is born boy .In Bible says that a rainbow appeared for the first time in the world after the Great Flood, God as the sign that will not happen again such a disaster.

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Thanks you ! AND PRAISE THE SUN!