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Everyone has seen the rainbow one or many
times in their life; this natural phenomenon, that lights up when there
is a lot of water particles in the air.
The history about Noah’s arc is also well known. Noah’s arc survived the
big flood; and God was regretful, and said, that as collateral for his
promise to never let the Earth be flooded again, he would let the
rainbow appear after each rainfall.
So the story has passed from generation to generation; and we have
admired the rainbow, but we still know surprisingly little about what
the colours in the rainbow mean.
If you want to understand what colour means to us as people, we must
start with the origin of colour.
All the colours that we see in the rainbow, travel together with light
down to Earth; and the light created by the sun, occurs under the
constant explosions of basic matter lighting up the sun giving us
life-preserving heat.

Imagine that the light that you see outside during the day has travelled
down from the Sun with a speed of 300,000 kilometres per second. And
even if the Sun is 150 million kilometres away from us, it uses only 8 ½
minutes to reach us. The light travels a great distance in this short
time, but light does not travel alone.
Together with light, there are many life-important rays that we have
learned to exploit to our advantage.
n this drawing, you will see what the light brings along of rays that we
totally depend on today. But still, we have not learned about the
amazing influence colour has on everything from plants to fish, animals
and people.
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