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How Does Rayleigh Scattering ACTUALLY Work? (The Blue Sky)

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There are bunch of videos out there explaining why the sky is blue, but let's go a little deeper into the optics. Why does color matter? What's a vibrational resonance? What's actually happening on the subatomic level?
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OTHER SOURCES

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/bluesky/en/
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Optics by Hecht

Tai Danai on Tensors:
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