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Why is the sky blue?
Classical Mechanics
Level 1
Why is the sky blue?
Blue is faster than other colors, and thus our eyes receive more blue photons.
The color of ozone in the stratosphere is blue.
Blue has a shorter wavelength than other colors, and thus scatters here and there.
The red color of the sun makes us perceive the sky as blue as a relative effect.
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