I might be stupid by not knowing this, but I suddenly got an item on my bucket list.

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    Also: The rainbow you see depends on your position. So a different position yields a different rainbow, even tho it’s the same source of light and the same bulk refraction. It isn’t like there actually is some kind of physical thing in the sky we see, it’s just the light being refracted into our eyes.

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      Yep. The one you see is actually just a 2d slice of a complex overlapping structure of light within a cylinder. It’s really fascinating.