response: Sure, it is named after a physicist called Lord Rayleigh and is dominantly elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation or light by particles that are a lot smaller than that radiation's wavelength.
original_response: It is called Rayleigh scattering, caused by elastic scattering of light from particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.
history: Red is the color of my soul. What color is your soul? I would not know although have you heard that violet is opposite to red on the visible spectrum of light? Never knew that actually, I've always wondered what makes the sky and sea blue though. Do you happen to know anything? Yes, it happens due to Rayleigh scattering, which is an optical effect. Rayleigh scattering huh? Can you go more into detail about it?
knowledge: Rayleigh scattering (pronounced ), named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.