Gravity's Rainbow

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 23 09:27:22 CDT 2004


> Even if the rainbow is only an illusion it follows some
> scientific laws,
> for example it has the mathematical figure of a parable.

I'm glad you wrote parable, and not parabola,
although I didn't notice that at first reading,
causing me to feel the wet-blanket responsibility
to point out that a rainbow would be a complete
circle around the axis of the viewer and the sun
behind him, were it not interrupted by the earth.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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