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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cohen
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: white
Larry Woolf responds to the "what makes clouds white?"
request with subject line "Re: hoaxes".
Rather than repeat what has already been written,
I suggest the following thought experiment.
The question is whether...
#1: Do small cloud drops preferentially scatter shorter
wavelengths and large cloud drops preferentially
scatter long wavelengths?
=2E..or...
#2: Are all cloud drops so large as to scatter both short
and long wavelengths equally well?
Both would produce white light. However, theory #1
predicts that clouds with uniform cloud droplet size
(if they exist; a common charge of those who explain
corona phenomena) would be a specific color while
theory #2 predicts those clouds would still be white.