ASK DR. SCIENCE

Query:
 > Anonymous Student
Why is the sky blue?

The Experts Respond:
 > Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
The sky’s blue? I need pupils.

 > Albert Einstein
True it’s blue, and I gots the bomb lit to ta make it legit.
You with me, mixmaster W?

 > Dr. Wily
Yo yo yo, what it be, my main man Einstein be layin’ down da phat rhizymes…

 > Albert Einstein
W3rd.

 > Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
I beg your...

 > Albert Einstein
Atmosphere in place, no vacuum like in space/
molecules of air what support the human race…

 > Dr. Wily
Givin’ breath to us all, from the sun, light rays fall/
in the sky there is played some mean atomic pinball.

 > Albert Einstein
Using Rayleigh’s ideas mixed wit’ theories of my own/
I proved with mad math skillz why blue is tha color shown!

 > Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Albert? Are you…

 > Albert Einstein
Chill, foam boy, we about to break it down for the playaz!

 > Dr. Wily
Light as a wave coincides with the air/
bounces to and fro, from here to there…

 > Albert Einstein
Light of shorta wavelengths, for example blue/
are scattered more and more, this intensifies their hue...

 > Albert Einstein
Blue light, scattered more as theorized by Rayleigh/
gives rise to the famous Amos color that we see!

 > Albert Einstein
True dat.

 > Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
Thank you, science is presently weeping silently.