Why is the colour of sky is blue if we use Rayleigh's scattering law, then the wavelength of violet colour is the shortest and therefore we should see the sky violet not blue?

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thomaster · Answer

Because our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow & green). Since the color blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.

anonymous · Answer

or eyes has a trick that makes us see things in colors and ways, its science

anonymous · Answer

Thats a good question! Me and my friends at the science museum were talking about it We had a few ideas, one came out as the most important in this nice thing You should check out the spectrom of light arriving from the sun Guess what, blue is much more intense the violet to start with... ! http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1204401