Is it possible to drive through a rainbow

So Please tell me what I was seeing then.. Whatever this was did not move , I passed through it then once through it looked forward to see another or the same even further away then this one had been LOL I am loosing my mind..

WHAT pray tell did I see. I could see the whole arch right up to the end in front of me and the reflection on my car..

I am not blind.. I think the explanation is that the distance can appear to be more or less anything that your brain wants to perceive it to be although I have always seen it 'at infinity', myself. The apparent ' bow' that you see just HAS to be part of a cone - or the light just wouldn't be getting to your eye. As far as you memory of a particular experience goes - with the greatest respect, it can be very confusing as to what you actually saw.

Unfortunately, it would be virtually impossible to recreate the exact conditions. All I can suggest is that, next time you see a nice substantial rainbow, you try to fit what you are seeing to my idea of an apparent 'cone' of colours.

It may make more more sense to you. Of course, because it has to be with Sun behind you, it makes it harder to suss out the geometry. Good luck. Thanks so much for trying to explain and it did go alondg way to doing that I appreciate your time and determination. I will keep this and continue to think about it! Thanks a bunch! Seany Naked Science Forum King! I wish I could drive through a rainbow! I've only seen them really far away!

Never too close to be even a mile away. Probably about miles.. They say that when you die, your life flashes in front of you. Make it worth watching!

Well apparently it was the illusion of driving through one.. LOL Just kidding!! You are a nice young man!!! Humor the old women will ya!!! Odd, huh.. I hate those odd spelling differences between English and American! Jess nodded, with nothing more than the word, Yes, escaping her lips.

Our eyes wide, I kept my foot on the accelerator, and in what seemed like slow-motion, we drove ever closer to the end of the rainbow, as it still refused to comply with the theory of refraction. A second later, with baited breath, my little car entered the rainbow, and Jess and I found ourselves bathed in the most beautiful, shimmering, golden light. As we drove out the other side, we both immediately looked behind us and saw through the rear window that the rainbow was indeed still there.

Our camping plans scuppered by the torrential rain that ensued, Jess and I drove home, checking behind us constantly, for as far as the eye could see until the rainbow disappeared from view. It blew our minds then, and it still blows our minds now. Two brothers driving home from work in Colorado Springs, CO, were treated to a spectacular experience. Not only did they find the end of a rainbow, they actually drove through it.

The end of a rainbow has been captured by an amateur photographer on his iPod in southern California — but there was no pot of gold to help the state out of its deepening financial crisis. Jason Erdkamp caught the shot as he travelled along a motorway in Orange County, California, in the rain last Sunday.

A rainbow is light reflecting and refracting off water particles in the air, such as rain or mist. The water particles and refracted light that form the rainbow you see can be miles away and are too distant to touch. Consider this: If you see a friend standing directly underneath a rainbow and try to approach her, the closer you get, the father away the rainbow will appear.

In fact, from her position, your friend will see an entirely separate rainbow in the distance — but still at 42 degrees. Good Luck Leprechauns were said to hide their gold at the end of a rainbow for safe keeping. Should anyone stumble upon this gold, they would be free to take a handful and this is often why people associate rainbows with good luck or good fortune for those that see them.

As you move towards the rainbow, it will always be the same distance away from you, so you can never reach it. For a rainbow to remain constant, the angle between the sun, the droplet, and the observer has to be at 42 degrees.