Do the Ends of the Rainbow Rest on Land?
The ends of the rainbow do not rest on anything. You see, the rainbow is only the reflection of the sun’s rays thrown back to us by the inside of the back of the raindrops, which are still in the sky after the rain. Of course, if any of the drops of water touched the ground they would cease to be raindrops and, therefore, could not reflect the rays of the sunlight. So, what we think of as the ends of the rainbow do not really exist at all. The rainbow is only a reflection of the rays of sunlight from countless drops of water in the air, which the sun’s rays must strike at a certain angle in order to reflect back the light so we can see it. Where the sun’s rays do not strike the drops of water at the right angle no light is reflected, and there is the end of the rainbow.