Children are highly inquisitive and are always asking questions.

One of the most common questions that children have is,

Why is the sky blue?

It's a simple and reasonable question,

yet the answer is rather complicated,

and most adults really aren't sure why the sky is blue.

Learn why the sky is blue and how to answer a child's most common question on this

episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The fact that the sky is blue is one of the most fundamental and universal facts of the world we live in.

If you want it to use an example of something which is an eye. fundamental and

if you wanted to use an example of something which is an obvious truth you might say the sky is blue.

As simple and obvious a fact as it is, the reason why the sky is blue is a bit involved and the truth is that no one really

knew why the sky was blue until the 19th century.

One of the explanations that people traditionally gave was that the sky was blue because it was

displaying the reflected color of the water in the oceans.

This of course makes absolutely no sense as it's blue everywhere on Earth even if there's no water to be found anywhere nearby.

And on the same note, this is also the reason people

gave as to why water was blue, because it reflected the color of the sky. The real reason

why the sky is blue is a bit involved, but it's not hard to understand. But to understand it,

you need to know a bit about the nature of light, our sun, the atmosphere, and even the human eye.

Let's start with light.

As you probably know, white light is made up of different colors.

You might remember the mnemonic device to remember the colors Roy G. Biv,

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