List Members,
On page 235 of his book The Ultimate Reality, Mr. Cater denies the
traditional explanation for the so-called scattering of light by the
atmosphere, by which our sky is blue and sunlight reddish at dusk and
dawn:
" According to physicists, the blue results from the scattering of
blue
light by dust particles in the atmosphere. If this idea were valid,
then all
dust particles would have to be nearly uniform in size to be so
partial to
blue. This would be a most extraordinary coincidence, violating all
of the
rule of probability. At any rate, why doesn't the remaining light
from which
the blue was extracted create odd color effects, and why doesn't; the
spectrum produced by rainbows and prisms indicate a shortage of
blues? Of
course, there is the other difficulty in explaining the process by
which
light can collide with any particle and scatter only the blue light. "