Yes, this rainbow can honestly tell this leprechaun that his gold is safely stored at the end of the rainbow. After all, have you ever known anyone who has ever even gotten to the end of rainbow, even with a pot of gold tempting them? Even if a rainbow is right in front of you, it always still seems to stay out of reach. And, the concept of gold being at the rainbow is actually a historical rearrangement of the original concept that your chance of finding the end of a rainbow was about the same as your finding a pot of gold.
Maybe it is best not to try to analyze one of nature’s magical wonders as a rainbow too much (care to vote for your favorite water body?), as even the concept of the rainbow being a bow (arc) is not entirely true. Did you know that if the horizon wasn’t in the way, a rainbow would take the shape of a circle (as seen from an airplane, as in the picture below)? Read more
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