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« Reply #40 on: 28/12/2008 12:14:50 »
A  normal rainbow follows the 'laws' strictly. I am looking for some additional factor which would modify the appearance to allow it not to appear circular as with a normal bow.
Crystal pendants operate in a totally different way, producing a real image on a surface. If you understand the difference between real and virtual images how can bring that phenomenon into the discussion? If you don't understand, then read about them - it shouldn't compromise any of your principles to find out something like that - and you may see what I am getting at.
Let's try some proper Science, for a change.
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« Reply #41 on: 30/12/2008 10:32:30 »
I'm thinking it has something to do with the light passing through droplets to create two rainbows. Maybe having the light go through the droplets from two sources such as a reflection from one other source has something to do with it? Has the light passing through the droplets been split into two sources?

All I do know for sure about this phenomenon is that I saw what I saw and so did my wife.


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A  normal rainbow follows the 'laws' strictly. I am looking for some additional factor which would modify the appearance to allow it not to appear circular as with a normal bow.
Crystal pendants operate in a totally different way, producing a real image on a surface. If you understand the difference between real and virtual images how can bring that phenomenon into the discussion? If you don't understand, then read about them - it shouldn't compromise any of your principles to find out something like that - and you may see what I am getting at.
Let's try some proper Science, for a change.
« Last Edit: 30/12/2008 11:15:20 by Andrew K Fletcher »
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« Reply #42 on: 02/01/2009 05:08:36 »
wow! thats quite an experience...i have seen many but never had the luck or opportunity to walk right through it...it must have been an awesome experience for you!
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« Reply #43 on: 02/01/2009 08:30:08 »
spooky is a word that could be used to describe the colours that were providing an eye feast for us.
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« Reply #44 on: 02/01/2009 14:42:39 »
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I'm thinking it has something to do with the light passing through droplets to create two rainbows. Maybe having the light go through the droplets from two sources such as a reflection from one other source has something to do with it? Has the light passing through the droplets been split into two sources?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow
The diagrams are fair. In both / all cases, the rainbows are virtual images and occur nowhere in particular - or you could say, infinity, as that is where the object (The Sun) is situated.
This is why I am looking for some extra influence which could have modified the apparent position of what you and other people have seen. For instance, the presence of a wet windscreen etc..

Now a photograph, taken by - not of someone who actually is having your experience, would be interesting. I think it may be a bit like ectoplasm and ghosts - a very intense and pleasurable experience at times but not exactly what is happening.  Seeing is not necessarily believing. Photoshop could always be made to produce any effect, too!
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« Reply #45 on: 04/05/2009 06:59:22 »
Karen W.    I too experience driving through a rainbow.  I was a passenger in a car, driven by by mom.  It happened happened about 30 years ago when I was a teenager, but I remember it well, not something easily forgotten and somehow it changes your life forever.  It was a double rainbow and it covered our two-lane road like a canopy or covered bridge and went on for several blocks.  it was simply, indescribably amazing and we were both in profound and utter awe.  I remember wondering while it was happening if other people were seeing it too, or if it was just us. Years later, my mother described it as like "traveling through another dimension."  And I couldn't have put it better.  That is exactly what it felt like. 

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« Reply #46 on: 05/05/2009 03:29:56 »
Quote from: aunt bee on 04/05/2009 06:59:22
Karen W.    I too experience driving through a rainbow.  I was a passenger in a car, driven by by mom.  It happened happened about 30 years ago when I was a teenager, but I remember it well, not something easily forgotten and somehow it changes your life forever.  It was a double rainbow and it covered our two-lane road like a canopy or covered bridge and went on for several blocks.  it was simply, indescribably amazing and we were both in profound and utter awe.  I remember wondering while it was happening if other people were seeing it too, or if it was just us. Years later, my mother described it as like "traveling through another dimension."  And I couldn't have put it better.  That is exactly what it felt like. 

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I must say.. That driving through this rainbow was a very interesting experience very beautiful in colors and fantastc to see although hard to undestand according to what I have been told by members here... their explanations do not match what I saw and experienced...I do have an open mind for trying to understand the science behind it...but that does not mean I have actually grasped the whole idea and taken them in as explanation.... there are too many differences in what I saw!

I must also say I can't say it was Life changing either but it was lovely and very cool.... certainly could not describe what I saw as if I were in another dimention... the area it covered was propbably about 20 to 30 ft in distance on the road and it was more like a rainbow colored veil
hung  down where the end touched down.. a beautiful  rainbows in really right in front and around me inside of the rays of its color bands....
I was enamered by it and found it really awesome but was very surprised not having had een that before.I was an adult seeing this.

I really don,,t understand it but it is a very nice memory as I do adore rainbows! 
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« Reply #47 on: 09/05/2009 05:18:55 »
I have also experienced driving through a rainbow. I was with my husband about 20 yrs ago driving in the Redwoods in California, U.S.. The road was very curvy and the canopy above from the trees was almost complete.  Once in a while a break in the forest would allow some sun shine through here and there and the rain was mostly a drizzle. Rounding a sharp hairpin turn while climbing up the mountain road the sun on the dusty windshield made it nearly impossible to see the road for a second, but as we began turn we were suddenly bathed in a spectrum of light.  We were driving very slowly on this slippery mountain road. I turned to my husband,to see if he saw the same thing,my husband was focused on the road but I saw him smiling. Then we were through it. It was probably only a few seconds of time but it seemed in slowed motion. It was very cool and I will never forget the feeling of amazement and warmth that we shared that day.  When we got to the campground, next to the Pacific Ocean our friends began to tell us about this, "very brillantly colored rainbow that went right down into the trees."  They could see it from the beach.

To those who do not believe-
Scientifically the spectrum can be seen when light shines through a transparent medium (like a raindrop) and undergoes partial internal reflection, and this is refracted between the angles of 40°(violet) and 42°(red).  The rest of the colors fall in between. Physics tells us we can never find the end of the rainbow because if we see the rainbow we are already at the proper angle and if we move the angle will change.   BUT...physics does not say that a rainbow cannot find us. (Not us personally of course).  There is really no reason why, albeit the odds have got to be phenomenal, that if all the conditions were right it is possible. There are rainbows present that we don't see because our angle is wrong between the drops and the sun, so depending on where the sun is in the sky a rainbow could be anywhere.

I also want to say that I am thrilled to find this site and others who have experienced this, I knew what we saw that day was real, I just never met anyone else who experienced it too.
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« Reply #48 on: 09/05/2009 08:07:54 »
Quote from: cinda on 09/05/2009 05:18:55
I have also experienced driving through a rainbow. I was with my husband about 20 yrs ago driving in the Redwoods in California, U.S.. The road was very curvy and the canopy above from the trees was almost complete.  Once in a while a break in the forest would allow some sun shine through here and there and the rain was mostly a drizzle. Rounding a sharp hairpin turn while climbing up the mountain road the sun on the dusty windshield made it nearly impossible to see the road for a second, but as we began turn we were suddenly bathed in a spectrum of light.  We were driving very slowly on this slippery mountain road. I turned to my husband,to see if he saw the same thing,my husband was focused on the road but I saw him smiling. Then we were through it. It was probably only a few seconds of time but it seemed in slowed motion. It was very cool and I will never forget the feeling of amazement and warmth that we shared that day.  When we got to the campground, next to the Pacific Ocean our friends began to tell us about this, "very brillantly colored rainbow that went right down into the trees."  They could see it from the beach.

To those who do not believe-
Scientifically the spectrum can be seen when light shines through a transparent medium (like a raindrop) and undergoes partial internal reflection, and this is refracted between the angles of 40°(violet) and 42°(red).  The rest of the colors fall in between. Physics tells us we can never find the end of the rainbow because if we see the rainbow we are already at the proper angle and if we move the angle will change.   BUT...physics does not say that a rainbow cannot find us. (Not us personally of course).  There is really no reason why, albeit the odds have got to be phenomenal, that if all the conditions were right it is possible. There are rainbows present that we don't see because our angle is wrong between the drops and the sun, so depending on where the sun is in the sky a rainbow could be anywhere.

I also want to say that I am thrilled to find this site and others who have experienced this, I knew what we saw that day was real, I just never met anyone else who experienced it too.

Welcome Cinda I am Karen....nice to meet you.. and I am dumbfounded that you seen the same phenomonon where you did.... That makes TWO of us in the redwoods in California...I am up in the Eureka, Arcata, Blue Lake Area, Humboldt County....U.S.A. we live in Redwoods here in Northern California! This is where I seen the same thing and Like you... I drove through it...Only took a brief moment ....a couple hundred feet and Out I came.. It was very cool and definitely made me smile...It was amazing! I know what I saw was real and it does not fit what I have been told! I am sure what I saw was the end......
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« Reply #49 on: 09/05/2009 10:34:17 »
great cool
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« Reply #50 on: 09/05/2009 12:32:20 »
Yes it is cool!
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« Reply #51 on: 02/06/2009 10:51:09 »
Well, I have one question, have you seen the Pot of Gold?LOL just kidding, if it is already ahead of you, then there's no way you can say that you are still IN the rainbow but, you can say that you are covered or you are below it.
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« Reply #52 on: 14/06/2009 22:32:07 »
Karen in the Redwoods USA-

We were on our way to Fort Bragg, to a campground near Glass Beach called "Green Acres".  We were taking the highway from Willits over to Fort Bragg when it happened.  Being familiar with area you can understand when I say how dark it can seem in the trees through that area because the Redwoods are so thick. And then how how as you are driving and an opening comes and you are blinded by the sun shining on the windshield.  We were traveling very slowing because there was a bike race or something going on. I remember how that 30 some-odd miles took way longer because of the cars on the side of the highway in places and all the bicycles.  For those who aren't familiar with that road, it is very curvy, up and down hills and solid Redwoods on both sides-oh yeah and 2 lanes, narrow.  Anyway, I know what we experienced too and remember how it changed the whole level of frustration we were feeling just before it happened to something very cool.  I also remember moving my arms and turning in the cab of the truck for an instant and seeing the colors on my arms and body and thinking how I felt bathed in light. Then it was over and we laughed.
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« Reply #53 on: 20/06/2009 21:38:16 »
I too have had this experience about forty years ago, it did not last long and I thought about looking for the proverbial pot of gold but as the road was narrow with nowhere to park I gave up on the idea.
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« Reply #54 on: 09/12/2009 02:34:00 »
I have driven through what looked like the end of a Rainbow. Is this topic still active?
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« Reply #55 on: 13/12/2009 04:12:21 »
 I have passed under a rainbow twice. The first time was when I was walking over a bridge with a friend back in 2001. The arc was visible at the NE corner of the bridge and the other side of the arc came to rest at what appeared to be 1/4 mile SW in the park. Once we walked under the rainbow we turned around and could see it from the other direction.
 The 2nd time happened today. I was flying this time. I watched as the plane approached the rainbow and knew we would be flying under the arc. As we began to descend and cirle the airport the rainbow was visible behind us.
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« Reply #56 on: 16/10/2011 09:15:24 »
A couple of years ago, I drove through the end of a rainbow, too.  I told the story to some friends tonight and they didn't believe me.  So I looked it up to see if it was possible.  It was huge.  It was at the junction of the 405 and 101 freeway in Encino.  It was a huge rainbow I could see going north coming down the hill.  The end of the rainbow wasn't moving, it was just smack spanning the width of the 405, the embankment and part of the onramp to the 101 freeway, going west.  I thought, I'm going to drive right through the end of a rainbow!  I couldn't believe it.  I thought that it would disappear as I approached, but it didn't.  It sparkled many colors and golden, too, like a glittery shower all around me.  I slowed down to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing.  Like little prisms in droplets of water on the grass of the embankment and in the sky and road around me. It was one of the most thrilling things that has ever happened to me.  I read the incredulous and snarky responses to others who posted here their experiences, about "what it must have been, because it's impossible," but it happened to me, too.   And it looked just like some of these pictures but was way bigger and impossible to mistake.  And when I looked back, it was there behind me.  And I thought about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Certainly it was golden and beautiful.  And I feel very lucky to have experienced that.

So cue the x-files music if you like.  I like that music.   I couldn't believe it could happen--but it did..  And I don't care what the doubters say or what they think I must have seen.  They are just unlucky enough not to have experienced it.  But I hope you do.  this world is way more amazing to me every day!   And thanks for the posters who described it.  Right on target.  I'm glad I looked this up.  I don't usually tell about it because it sounds so fantastic, but reading the other's descriptions, I know I'm not the only one.  Thanks.
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« Reply #57 on: 16/10/2011 09:32:50 »
I don't believe it!  How on earth could you have missed the pot of gold?  I think you had a once in a lifetime experience and you MISSED THE GOLD!   I have even chased down rainbows in the hope of experiencing what you did, not even knowing if it was possible to do so.   [:D]
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« Reply #58 on: 06/02/2012 11:50:00 »
Thank you to all of the contributors to this amazing experience. We forgot to add that our car was illuminated and we could see the colours inside the car and on people walking around who where equally amazed judging by their expressions. Paulene your descriptions  reflect perfectly our experience. Airthumbs I hope you too experience this.
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« Reply #59 on: 06/05/2012 17:24:28 »
I AM VERY ENCOURAGED ABOUT ALL THERESPONSES AND GREATFUL ALSO FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECT..BUT AS FOR ME...I HAVE FOUND SCIENCE FASCINATING AND YET NOT ALWAYS FULL PROOF OR FLAWLESS AND I HAVE ALSO SEEN PROVEN THEROIES USED FOR YEARS AS TRUE AND CORRECT JUST TO FIND OUT YEARS LATER THAT THE WHOLE THEORY MAY HAVE WORKED IN FAVOR OUTCOMES IN REPEATED TESTS, ETC... BUT TURN OUT TO BE WRONG AND NEW THEROIES  REAPPLIED WITH NEW RESULTS..AND I THINK THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT WILL BE TRUE IN THESE CASES..
THANK YOU GUYS FOR PARTICIPATING..MAKE SURE YOU CARRY A SHOVEL...LOL...
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