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rea5245:
Here's a science question for Pride month:

I've been thinking about rainbows. And of course, the mythical origin of the rainbow is Noah's flood, which implied that there were no rainbows before that.

So... what would physics look like before the mythical flood, when different frequencies of light all refracted at the same angle (or did not refract at all), so that the light didn't split and there were no rainbows?

Could the "damage" to quantum physics be limited to just refraction, or would other properties of photons have to change, or would all of quantum mechanics come crashing down (and if so, why)?
TimFox:
Photons will be photons, and EM waves will undulate.
The visible rainbow is produced due to variation with wavelength/frequency in the refractive index ("dispersion") of the water in the droplets.
Dispersion in materials is a quantum effect--only classical physics existed in antediluvian times.
rea5245:

--- Quote from: TimFox on June 11, 2023, 02:51:58 pm ---only classical physics existed in antediluvian times.

--- End quote ---

That's an interesting way of thinking about it. God promised not to flood us again, but plagued us with inscrutable physics instead.  :-DD
TimFox:
And quantum physics was followed closely by oenology.
Genesis IX, 20-21.
AndyBeez:
Rainbows are made from Dark Light - and this is a fact according to AI :-//

OK so now I'm just confused. How many rainbows do the LGBTQAIW+ 'community' need? Answer, all of them. Seriously, you want to click this: https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2021/jun/lgbtq-pride-flags-and-what-they-stand-for.html

Not to be confused with the resistor color code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code

Flags as yet awaiting colors : Transformersexual. Transientsexual. Oscillatingsexual. Flipflopsexual. Harmonicsexual...
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