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August 23, 2002

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. If there were a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, would we all get rich?

    A. Frustrated is more like it. For while you may see the end of a rainbow, you can never visit it, says Craig Bohren in "Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics." When you see a rainbow, you're at its center. When you move, the rainbow moves. You can no more get to its end than you can get to your image in a mirror.


     
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