Sir Isaac Newton’s Discovery and the Color Wheel. While it appears as though the color wheel is the visible spectrum of colors placed on a wheel, the real basis for the color wheel is rooted in Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms. His experiments led to the theory that red, yellow and blue were the primary colors from which all other colors are derived. While that’s not entirely true, it’s still influential in the color wheels developed in the early 1800s as well as the color wheel currently used today.
http://munsell.com/color-blog/sir-isaac-newton-color-wheel/
If you try to reach a rainbow’s end, to get the pot of gold, perhaps, the rainbow would move. Different water droplets would reflect into your eyes so it would always seem to be the same distance, no matter where you go. In fact, this is probably what inspired the pot of gold story: it seems just like a fairy’s trick.
http://coffeeshopphysics.com/articles/2011-10/30_the_discovery_of_rainbows/
Subsequent analysis suggested the apparition is real as it registered at five sigma. Should the CERN team be successful in creating another rainbow universe, proof of a rainbow gravity could force physicists to rethink the origins of the universe—the Big Bang theory, for example, would likely be thrown out. But such a confirmation could also finally bridge general relativity with quantum mechanics.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/lhc-accidental-rainbow-universe/
This explanation concerns only the principal and the secondary bows; it does not take notice of the supplementary bows, nor of the fact that the colours, their intensity, breadth, and sequence vary greatly with the size of the raindrops. That the rainbows are interference phenomena, was recognised by Young. Their correct theory is contained in Airy’s “Intensity of Light in the Neighbourhood of a Caustic” (Trans. Cam. Phil. Soc., vi. p. 379; viii. p. 595, 1838 and 1848). The intensity depends upon an infinite integral, which Airy first attempted to compute by quadratures.
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In 1896, Prof. J. M. Pernter, then at Innsbruck, now director of the Central Station for Meteorology and Earth Magnetism at Vienna, presented a long paper on the colours of the rainbow and the white rainbow to the Vienna Academy (Wien. Akad.
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If we draw the intensity of each angle as a semicircle, it even begins to look like a double rainbow. Except for color. Descartes’s theory completely accounted for the angles of the rainbows, the dark band, and even the shape of the intensity distribution, but didn’t have anything (correct) to say about color. That part of the problem was solved by Sir Isaac Newton 67 years later.
http://coffeeshopphysics.com/articles/2011-10/30_the_discovery_of_rainbows/
I was stuck in traffic one day when a glorious double rainbow appeared over the highway. It had been a drizzly day; the whole sky was covered with clouds except for a little gap along the horizon, and it was just about sunset.
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First proposed back in the early 2000s, the theory of rainbow gravity posits that different wavelengths of light are affected by gravity in different ways. Rainbow universes are thought to be a natural result of rainbow gravity, but with the peculiar qualities of not having distinct beginnings. In other words, rainbow universes have been around since forever, which has physicists stumped over the “creation” at the LHC.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/lhc-accidental-rainbow-universe/
The color wheel’s roots date back to the mid-1600s when Sir Isaac Newton’s work with white light led him to the discovery of the visible spectrum of light. Newton observed the way each color of light would bend as it passed through the prism. You may have learned the term “ROY G BIV” (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) in elementary school science class. “ROY G BIV” was the result of Newton’s discovery.
http://munsell.com/color-blog/sir-isaac-newton-color-wheel/
Most of the rainbows I’d ever seen were faint wisps; this was an intense glow, as bright as a flask of electrified mercury. Fortunately, the cars weren’t moving, so I got a good, long look. Rainbow-like color separation happens a lot in physics classes, and I thought I understood what caused the second rainbow.
http://coffeeshopphysics.com/articles/2011-10/30_the_discovery_of_rainbows/
who discovered the rainbow theory
Sir Isaac Newton discovered the rainbow theory.  