Where does the rainbow get its colors?
For ages, the study of color was claimed by artists as their own special field. Then Isaac Newton claimed color for the field of physics. Tae now know that color is a built in property of light. Red roses and green grasses, blue skies and shimmering rainbows are colored by light, and only light. Everyone has a bit of the artist in him and a bit of the thinker. The rainbow appeals first of all to the admiring eye of the artist. Its beauty is wonderous to behold. Then the thinker is prodded with curiosity about the nature of this phenomenon. It took the best brains of centuries to answer the natural questions about the rainbow and some of them are still unanswered. For the rainbow is a glamorous daughter of light. And modern scientists cannot explain the nature of light down to the last detail. Plenty of fascinating research is waiting for those who plan future careers in this branch of science. Isaac Newton experimented with ordinary white, or colorless light. He let a beam of invisible
