Lulu Miller

And that's the big insight there is that rainbows, that the colors within a beam of light coming from the sun are oscillating at all these different waves.

And the way that our eyes process those waves and send information to the brain is that we like perceive those wavelengths as different colors.

And so the low, long, slow waves we tend to see as red, the middle kind of medium waves we see as greens, and the really fast ones we see as violet.

But also on every rainbow on either side is light we cannot see, ultraviolet, infrared, microwaves, things like that.

And where we divide it into colors, like the waves are just like the ocean.

They're just like some big ones, some medium ones.

Where we divide it depends on the person, where we draw the line.

And so the poets, the painters, Nasir al-Dun, al-Tusi, our guy, this idea that like the lines are subjective, like there aren't seven concrete colors.

There are really, there are really infinite colors in the rainbow.

Goddamn.

And so sort of like what colors we see, where we divide the lines, which ones appear strong, which ones we happen to see maybe because of associations or moods.

Like the little conclusion there is that, you know, all those long ago traditions were right.

That like the rainbow sign, it is a bridge.

It's out there and it's in here.

It's like a bridge between worlds.

It's a bridge between an inside and outside kind of thing.

being like a thing, which I think is why they they are so like slippery and wonderful.

Wow.

So that's the that's the story of the rainbow.

Ah, that was so good.