Why Is The Sky Blue? Easy At-Home Experiment

In this video I show you why the sky is blue and the sun is yellow. I talk about Rayleigh and Raman scattering and how it changes the colors that we see from the sun.

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[TheActionLab]

Lol, it's Raman not Ramen, I guess I was hungry...

[nayankulkarni]

Girlfriend: We missed the sunset
Me: Dont worry I have milk and water at home

[HappyNBoy]

This is one of the best 'why is the sky blue?' explanations I've ever seen. Connecting it with the fact that the sun appears yellow is a master stroke!

[jasonbyrd]

that was simply awesome! I can't wait to show it to my daughter when she's old enough to understand the concept.

[VimalRaj-uubt]

This man makes us see physics through his eyes.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Great way of explaining.

[szinthom]

Little child: Tell me, why is the sky blue?
Me: *throws laptop in front of the kid* here look

[zyghom]

where was YT when I was in the school? In the last couple of years I learned more on YT than during my whole education ;-)

[Thuebner]

“Ramen scattering” sounds more like something I’d do when I’m broke and hungry

[DerMaikNichJa]

Learned about those effects before but never noticed how simple this can be shown in action. Awesome

[DANGJOS]

I've tried the milk in water thing, and I don't remember it working that well. I need to try again. By the way, the scattering power of particles scales as their *(diameter^6)* so that's why the scattering works in just 1 foot of water, when it takes miles of atmosphere to work with small particles in/of the air.

[spinning_addicts]

So we've learned today that the sky has milk😂😂

[virajkapani]

1:54 What you mentioned here is Raman effect(or scattering) after CV Raman an Indian physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for this discovery.

[nowaayy_]

This is the best ever explanation about why is the sky blue.

[zantar]

Gonna try this with the kids. They will love this. Thank you

[parkey]

Wow, this is the best demonstration of why the sky is blue I have ever seen. Great work 👍🏼

[dmarckos]

Liked it!
The Nobel Prize should consider this demo.

[shayakbardhan]

It is my First time that i have a FIRST VIEW to any YOU TUBE VIDEO and that too happened to be one of your
I am a huge fan of "The Action i just love the different Experiments you do and the way you explain on doing EXPERIMENTS

[Narayan]

Thanks for making us smart.
Schools couldn't do that.

[goravdyan]

Wow... i read about scattering in school... but your demonstration was awesome....

[rajanlamichhane]

The Action Lab, I love your videos and I watch them regularly. I gain knowledge from your videos and found it interesting
Inspired from you, I named my channel as 'The Crazy Lab'.