rainbow's

[dancer girl]

can you stand at the end of a rainbow?

[5029]

no

[jenstar]

No. There's a pot of gold in the way. Seriously though, the position of a rainbow is relative to the observer, so you can never actually reach it.

[bernardo]

Only if someone else is the observer of the rainbow. If you are standing at the end of where someone else sees a rainbow, you will see a rainbow in a different place. It's caused by sunlight getting bent as it goes through millions of tiny water droplets in the air. (White light is made up of different colours, and the clever bit is that the different colours each bend slightly different amounts, so when the white light goes through a raindrop it gets split into the colours you see in a rainbow).

[Eno-Missy]

Carrying on from Bernard's point.. a rainbow isn't actually a rainbow it more of a rain circle. So you could never stand at the end of a rainbow only in it's border and even then, being so close you wouldnt even know it!! I have found this picture so you can see what I mean.... http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/rainbows/bowim1.htm

[steelhamster]

Ah, but if one was the observer, one could direct someone to the end of the rainbow....and claim the pot of gold.