john89@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhy do screen night lights that shift the color red work? Why red instead of some other color?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down11
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareWhy do screen night lights that shift the color red work? Why red instead of some other color?john89@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareVaryklinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agouh what? why? "Fine dust in the atmosphere permits blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than colors with longer wavelengths.* whAaaat. does the red wavelengths get caught in the red dust or something? this is such a good fact.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoThis the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
minus-squareVaryklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoi see, thanks. The size of atmospheric particles determines the color.
uh what? why?
"Fine dust in the atmosphere permits blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than colors with longer wavelengths.*
whAaaat.
does the red wavelengths get caught in the red dust or something?
this is such a good fact.
This the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
i see, thanks. The size of atmospheric particles determines the color.