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Hi,
I have always wondered this about the standard explanation for a rainbow. Okay, so individual water droplets refract light entering them, dispersing it, as well as changing its direction. Fine. Here's my question: why don't we see millions of little discrete spectra, one for each droplet. Why the circular arc? Why the continuity between bands of colour produced by one droplet, and those produced by all the others?
I have always wondered this about the standard explanation for a rainbow. Okay, so individual water droplets refract light entering them, dispersing it, as well as changing its direction. Fine. Here's my question: why don't we see millions of little discrete spectra, one for each droplet. Why the circular arc? Why the continuity between bands of colour produced by one droplet, and those produced by all the others?