• Science Promotion
• Science Explaining
  • Examples

Chemtrails

• The crazy rainbow lady - sprinkling her lawn, sees rainbow, claims it is proof government is putting chemicals in the water - from 2008
  • she made a video about this
  • how do rainbows work?
    • google, get diagrams showing light reflecting in water droplet being refracted - what about the order of the colors - for each angle of light entering, different particular light that is refracted. Each band coming from different drops.
    • Why is light even bending at all?
      • Snell’s law
      • Fermat’s principle - light always takes the path that is the shortest amount of time from one place to another
        • Example of lifeguard - shortest path to get to someone drowning
        • Does this make sense? How does light know
          • Huyens-Fresnel principles - light is lots of waves
          • Why is light slowing down in water?
            • Dr. Don Lincoln - Why does light slow down in water?
              • he says there are a lot of wrong answers on internet. Complicated things over simplified and invents wrong answers
                • examples:
                  • Atoms absorbing and re-emitting - doesnt explain angles
                • Correct …. superimposing the waves creates a new wave
                • Says we have to use Maxwell’s equations. - It doesnt help the average person
                • New diagram based on Maxwell’s equations.
                • Then he says there is a real explanation for light slowing down and light splitting into different colors - rate of slow down is different for different wavelengths - real answer is quantum physicists
                  • ”If you think you understand quantum physics, you are lying to yourself”
                  • Richard Feynman, 1983 - Magnets, how do they work?
                    • Journalist asked the question, and Feynman went through different levels
                    • Eventually realized journalized wouldn’t understand, said
                      • “I’m not going to be able to give an answer, … except to tell you that they do.”

So do I understand Rainbows?

• quantum physics? No
• Maxwlls equations - a little
• Huygens principle - sort of
• * fermats principle - maybe, but I dont like it
• Snells law - yes
• Sunlight on raindrops - reasonable

What this Rainbow Experience Taught ME

• Leonard Tramiel knows more physics than me
• Most people will never really understand rainbows
• Explaing “Whhy…” is a rabbit hole, dont go too deep and get lost!
• Focu on “what” and “when”, and not “how” and “why”

• turn out she was paranoid schizophrenic. She hasn’t posted more videos since 2008
• Explanations:
  • How a rainbow forms - this is what we know
  • Connect it simply with what she sees in her garden

• tailor to the individual
• Determine your shared reality, your common ground, basic points of science agreed on
• What did they miss?
  • They might not have noticed they only happen when the sun is behind you
• Keep it as simple as possible, but no simpler. Leverage existing knowledge
• Don’t over-explain
  • Rainbow explanation was a great example illustrating this point. You will lose the discussion
• Show, don’t tell
• Keep the science at hand, just in case

Popular in chemtrails program as evidence of things being sprayed in the air

• rainless rainbow

Halos and arcs

• common ground = rainbows need rain
• missing. = hallows
  • made from ice clouds - needs to be the right kind of crystal
  • contrails are ice clouds
  • around the sun, not opposite
  • happen when facing the sun
• show them where it fits
  • IT is not something new that needs chemtrails to explain it
• don’t over-explain
  • get them to observation
  • maybe later you can explain why halos happen

atoptics.co.uk/halo

More swear colors, like oil on pavement

Described as “insane oily” “spill” looking type clouds in the sky

Rainbows three ways

• refraction
• diffractions - oil clouds, and
• interference - colors on oil on oil slick

Diffraction is not interference (or is it?)

Woodcut from 1500’s

• sundogs - sideways halos next to the sun
• drawing of halos and Coronas
• these things have been seen for thousands of years - Aristotle in his book on meteorology
• These things have existed for a long time - this effective technique, especially for chem trail people
• books on clouds and weather - descriptions match what they are seeing and calling contrails.

Show them its not new

showing them it is real, is a part of the journey - its not near