Sun, it goes down
it's hard to notice
The darkness setting in now
Can't you see, the sky
it is oh so lovely
But, when it sets, don't you know
The science behind the scene,
Better than... quarantine
Listen, cus' we're explaining
Sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere
splits and scatters into colors of the rainbow; known as refraction
And this means it causes us to see the sun in an altered position than
it’s geometrical place
*instrumental*
Colors of the sun
Start to change
As molecules separate
And they shift directions, of their very own light rays
this phenomenon
It is called... Rayleigh scattering
This affects the way we see all colors
When the sun sets it was wider paths in the sky
and medias, or matter a wave travels in, varies
O2 and N2 gas scatter the colors
and based on wavelengths
they get absorbed called...
selective scattering
White’s the shade of the sun
it has all colors
of the visible light spectrum
But the view looking at the sky
the sun is yellow and the space is blue
This happens when, the particles
based on wavelengths sizes reflect the rays
These sun rays... start to change
their placement and then they rearrange
Colors that have smaller wavelength sizes
are absorbed by the molecules from the sky
Shorter wavelengths scatter and reflect
from particles and become visible
to the human eye
All these colors,
they’re seen through our eyes
They change when waves collide (you know)
Longer wavelengths, pierce the atmosphere
Warm colors of the spectrum ap-pear
That’s why these sunsets are vibrant
because these wavelengths have different frequencies
and if they are short waveforms
they can’t break the atmosphere
or be seen by us
only long waveforms can
*instrumental*
(correction: 450 nm = 450 x 10^9 meters)
(correction: 3 x 10^8 *meters* per second)
(correction: 6.67 x 10^14 *hertz*)
(correction: 300 million *meters* per second)
