COTR Museia – Blue skies, Red Skies, and Superhero Movies

The Faculty in Arts and Sciences at College of the Rockies invites you to the next public lecture in the COTR Museia series taking place Saturday, September 21st in partnership with the Cranbrook Public Library‘s Science Saturday event.

This lecture is free to attend but we do ask that you pre-register online to help us manage numbers.

Dr. Ben Tippett, Physics and Astronomy instructor at College of the Rockies, will explore why the sky being blue in the afternoon results in a red sky and pink mountains in the evening.  The reason Iron Man and The Hulk can pop off of the screen into 3-D is because your glasses let your left eye see a different picture from your right eye. People who love sportfishing will spend extra money to get sunglasses that let them see below the water, even on a sunny day.

This Autumn Museia, we will be talking about the simple property of light that makes the sky blue.

Would you like to learn more about this subject prior to the lecture? The Library recommends the following great reads!

• Light: Let’s Investigate by Ruth Owen
• All About Light by Monica Halpern
• Flash and Gleam by Sue Fliess
• Color Theory by Eric Hibit
• Full Spectrum by Adam Rogers
• Every Color of Light by Hiroshi Osada